Francisco Lopez-sancho
Lead Scala Engineer at Quantexa
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFrancisco Lopez-sancho is a Lead Scala Engineer with 12 years building resilient, distributed systems and a deep specialization in Akka—he is the author of Akka in Action and a contributor to the core akka project. He has led backend and test automation work that improved logging, dependency hygiene and test coverage for one of the most widely used reactive toolkits. His career spans senior roles at Akka, Quantexa, Teradata and others, delivering fault-tolerant ELT platforms, high-performance APIs and streaming architectures using Scala, Spark, Kubernetes and DevOps tooling. He also trains engineers in concurrency, JPA and Akka, translating complex distributed concepts into practical implementations. Comfortable both as a hands-on coder and an architectural lead, he frequently brings testing-first and production-readiness mindsets to large, mission-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Universitario Filosofia y letras, Universitario Filosofia y letras at UNED
English
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Github Skills (22)
akka10
java10
scala10
javas10
actor-model10
testing9
editor9
jquery-plugin9
timer9
distributed-systems9
configurations9
concurrency9
tomcat6
eclipse6
backup6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 12 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Francisco's commits indicate contributions focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the Akka codebase. They addressed logging errors, updated dependencies, and corrected typos. Moreover, the user made significant strides in adapting the project to SL4J, demonstrating familiarity with logging frameworks and refactoring existing code. The user also contributed to test-related changes, showing experience with testing frameworks and strategies within the Akka ecosystem.
resilientactor-modelreactiveconcurrentdistributed-actors
akka/akka-diagnostics
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM
Contributions:4 releases, 130 reviews, 15 commits in 2 months
concurrentmessage-drivenresilientmessage-queuejvm
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