Maxim Schuwalow
Lead Software Engineer at Golem Cloud
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMaxim Schuwalow is a Lead Software Engineer based in Berlin with a decade of experience building resilient stream-processing and distributed systems. He specializes in Scala and has made notable contributions to the high-profile ZIO open-source library, improving error-handling and fiber parallelism. A pragmatic technical leader, he has led engineering teams at Golem Cloud and LiveIntent while continuing to drive open-source work and conference speaking since 2017. His recent $15,000 Rust bounty for implementing a durable execution engine feature highlights a willingness to tackle low-level, cross-language challenges beyond his Scala expertise. Combining a cognitive-science background with hands-on backend engineering, he focuses on observable, high-performance systems that survive real-world failures. Colleagues know him for shipping practical solutions and translating hard concurrency problems into maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Cognitive Science at Universität OsnabrückAbitur Physics, Abitur Physics at Johannes-Brahms-Schule
English, German
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Github Skills (7)
asynchronous10
error-handling10
zio10
functional-programming10
async10
concurrency10
scala10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 44 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to improving the formatting of `FiberFailures` and the codebase's overall formatting. They made adjustments to the `ZIO` library, particularly within `FiberFailure.scala` and `ZIO.scala`, related to error handling, interruption, and parallel execution of fibers. Further contributions include resolving issues related to `zipPar` and the handling of unclean interruptions, and adding new test cases.
functional-programmingqueuesstreamsasynchronicityasync
mschuwalow/zio-prelude
Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
A lightweight, distinctly Scala take on functional abstractions, with tight ZIO integration
Contributions:47 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 3 months
ziofunctional-programmingscalajsscalaabstractions
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