Loïc Descotte
Functional Programmer, Software Architect, Manager at KAIZEN Solutions (KZS)
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolLoïc Descotte is a seasoned functional programmer, software architect, and manager with 15 years of experience building high-performance Scala and Java systems from Grenoble, France. He leads architecture and teams at KAIZEN Solutions, teaching and applying functional tooling like Cats, ZIO, Akka and Spark while also guiding migrations from Java to Scala in prior roles. Loïc has significant open-source contributions to prominent Scala projects—improving Play’s Slick plugin for multi-database support and adding a ZIO-based streaming backend to the widely used sttp HTTP client. He combines hands-on backend engineering for high-traffic services and recommendation engines with mentoring and internal training, making him as comfortable designing resilient distributed systems as coaching teams to adopt functional paradigms. Outside of code he’s a guitarist, reflecting a creative streak that often surfaces in elegant technical designs.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1, Computer sciences, Master 1, Computer sciences at Université Grenoble AlpesMaster's degree, Information systems, Master's degree, Information systems at Grenoble IAE
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Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
database-access10
zio10
scala10
http-client10
slick10
reactive-streams10
playframework10
akka-http9
akka9
databases9
database9
sbt-plugin8
mysql7
spark-submit6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/play-slick
Feb 2013 - May 2014
Slick Plugin for Play
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Loïc primarily focused on enhancing the Play Framework's Slick plugin. Their work involved modifying the plugin's internal structure to abstract database and driver configurations. They implemented a system to support multiple database configurations, allowing for greater flexibility in defining and switching between different database connections. They also refactored and improved the plugin's error handling and documentation.
database-accessplay-frameworksbt-pluginplayframeworkplugin
softwaremill/sttp
Mar 2019 - May 2019
The Scala HTTP client you always wanted!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Loïc contributed significantly to the implementation of a ZIO-based backend for the sttp library, specifically focusing on streaming capabilities with `AsyncHttpClientZioStreamsBackend`. Their commits involved integrating ZIO, and ZIO Streams, and modifying existing code to support the new ZIO backend. The work included adapting existing code, and creating new modules to support ZIO based streams and implementing stream based publisher to handle data transfer with asynchronous client.
guzzlefinaglehttpclientfs2zio
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