Hugo Zwaal is a seasoned Scala developer based in Breda with over 10 years of experience building reactive, real-time and distributed systems focused on scalability and software architecture. He has progressed from system engineer roles at Ericsson to senior and lead Scala positions at Civolution, Teletrax and currently Mendix, combining deep compiler and object-oriented expertise with hands-on delivery. Hugo excels at turning complex parallel and distributed challenges into maintainable architectures, and he pairs that with coaching and agile leadership across teams. Trained with an MSc (cum laude) in Information and Computer Science from the University of Twente, he brings rigorous academic grounding in system programming and parallel systems to practical product development. Committed to working within the Netherlands, he offers a rare blend of low-level systems thinking and high-level architectural judgment that speeds production-grade real-time data solutions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (cum laude), Information and Computer Science, System Programming, Architecture, Parallel and Distributed Systems, MSc (cum laude), Information and Computer Science, System Programming, Architecture, Parallel and Distributed Systems at University of Twente
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