Francis Toth
Founder Senior Developer Trainer at Contramap
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFrancis Toth is a founder and senior developer-trainer based in Montreal with over 20 years in software and 11 years focused on building resilient, distributed systems using Scala, Akka, functional programming and reactive architectures. He has led and mentored teams across industries—fintech, insurance, telecom, and event tech—delivering production systems from wallet management and risk forecasting to drone fleet and workspace booking platforms. As an independent consultant he blends hands-on engineering with training and speaking engagements, having taught Scala, Cats, Cats-Effect, Spark and Reactive Architecture worldwide and authored courses used in enterprise migrations. He’s pragmatic about modernizing legacy landscapes, having migrated AS/400 and monoliths to microservice architectures, and is known for optimizing performance and delivery pipelines to cut cycle times dramatically. Beyond code, he contributes to the community through talks, blog posts and open-source work, combining deep technical craft with an operator’s focus on reliability and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
IT Systems Consultant (Bac +5) Computer Science, IT Systems Consultant (Bac +5) Computer Science at EPSI
French, English, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
1,665reputation
74kreached
33answers
17questions
Github Skills (85)
concurrent10
dotty10
scala-native9
continuation9
effects9
asynchronous9
functional-programming9
react-native-component9
scala9
raii9
compiler8
zio8
async8
concurrent-programming8
concurrency8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FrancisToth/francistoth.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:93 commits, 14 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years 4 months
FrancisToth/blog
Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
My personal blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 119 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 1 month
jekyllmy-personal-blog
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