Ilya Cassina
Senior Scala Engineer at Onedot
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Cassina is a Senior Scala Engineer based in Lugano with 13 years of experience building high-performance data and backend systems. Currently focused on accelerating big data workflows by improving Spark engine performance at Onedot, he blends deep Scala expertise with practical systems work across Python and Java. His background includes bootstrapping fleet management software, designing developer and staging infrastructures, and consulting on performance and network optimization for financial services. Comfortable across the full stack—from databases like PostgreSQL and Cassandra to JVM tooling and deployment environments—he has a track record of turning prototype projects into production-ready platforms. Notably, he helped shape development teams and operational environments from the ground up, reflecting both hands-on engineering and pragmatic leadership.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, EPFL, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, EPFL, Computer Science at Université de Neuchâtel
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (68)
language-detection9
part-of-speech-tagger8
sentiment-analysis8
spark-ml8
pyspark8
entity-extraction8
database7
nlp7
functional-programming7
scala7
xl-deploy7
question-answering7
natural-language-processing7
xml7
xl-release6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
icassina/geoscript.scala
Jan 2013 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 1 month
apiscala
icassina/useless
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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