Łukasz Biały
Scala Developer Advocate
Poland
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Top SchoolŁukasz Biały is a Scala Developer Advocate and Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and data pipelines at VirtusLab. He combines deep Scala and JVM expertise with hands-on DevOps experience, having improved CI/CD and added benchmarking to the popular Chimney library to raise performance and developer confidence. His open-source contributions span core backend work—from OctoberCMS internals and database fixes to type-safe Scala transformations—showing attention to correctness, performance, and maintainability. A polyglot engineer by background (Scala, Java, JavaScript, PHP) and former freelancer, he brings both product-focused pragmatism and low-level systems craftsmanship to advocacy and platform work. Unusually for an engineer, he holds a master's in psychology, which informs his approach to developer experience and team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Magister, Psychologia, Magister, Psychologia at Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
English
Stackoverflow
431reputation
16kreached
4answers
10questions
Github Skills (28)
benchmark10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
macros10
benchmarking10
laravel10
cicd10
octobercms10
scala10
metaprogramming10
php10
build-automation10
github-ci9
event-handling9
githubaction-workflow9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
scalalandio/chimney
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Scala library for boilerplate-free, type-safe data transformations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 20 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Łukasz contributed to the project by implementing benchmark functionalities and enhancing the CI/CD pipeline. They added a benchmarking dashboard to the documentation and incorporated benchmarking into the continuous integration process. The user also modified the build configuration and fixed import issues. These contributions focused on performance measurement and automation, improving the development workflow.
functional-programmingscala-libraryautomatic-conversiontransformationsfs2
octobercms/library
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
October Rain Library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 comment in 8 months
Contributions summary:Łukasz contributed to core backend functionality within the OctoberCMS library. Their work included adding mail interception support for queueing and fixing router helper issues related to object parsing. The commits also involved addressing model boot events and applying validation improvements, further indicating their focus on enhancing core system behaviors and data management within the framework. Several commits also touched the database layer, fixing static event bindings and fixing morphTo eager loading.
rainoctober
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