Ian Forsey
Senior Scala Developer at Lemon Labs Limited
Fleet, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Forsey is a Senior Scala Developer and director of Lemon Labs with 14 years of experience building production-grade Scala systems for companies like Net-A-Porter, Sky and Disney Streaming Services. He pioneered Scala adoption at Net-A-Porter—authoring their first Scala project in 2011, running beginner workshops for ~100 engineers, and helping grow a fleet of 15+ Scala applications across multiple teams. An active author and maintainer of the popular scala-uri library, Ian combines hands-on engineering with training and public speaking on practical Scala adoption. He excels at moving teams from monoliths to resilient, cloud-native services and often consults to help organisations jumpstart or scale their Scala efforts. Based in Fleet, UK, he brings a blend of pragmatic code craftsmanship and organisational change experience that’s rare among individual contributors.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Southampton Solent University
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Github Skills (200)
parser10
url-parsing10
game-development10
streaming10
data-driven10
game-engine10
peg10
rest10
uri10
rust10
ajax10
json10
raii10
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scala10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lemonlabsuk/scala-uri-scalajs-example
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
Example of how to use scala-uri with scala-js
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 6 months
uriscalajsscala-uriscalasbt
NET-A-PORTER/scala-uri
Dec 2012 - May 2017
Simple scala library for building and parsing URIs
Contributions:104 commits, 15 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 5 months
scala-libraryparsingscala3scalafs2
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