Michał Matłoka
CTO at SoftwareMill
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichał Matłoka is a technology leader and current CTO at SoftwareMill with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering distributed systems, big data pipelines, and event-driven architectures. He combines hands-on engineering—especially in Scala, Kafka, Akka, Cassandra and Kubernetes—with strategic leadership in consulting and remote delivery for global clients. As a long-time contributor to the popular phantom Scala driver for Cassandra, he’s improved type-safe schema support and added nuanced datatype and iterator handling that benefit high-throughput backends. His career spans hands-on roles from supercomputing projects to fintech and security systems, giving him deep operational insight into production-scale reliability. Known for introducing functional programming and event sourcing practices to teams, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an emphasis on maintainability and automation. Based in Greater Poland, he blends strong academic grounding (MSc in Computer Science) with a track record of turning complex data problems into reliable, scalable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Poznan University of Technology8 LO, im. A.Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Github Skills (12)
javas10
application-server10
wildfly10
cassandra10
java10
scala10
prepared-statements9
arq9
configuration-management9
reactive-streams9
system-design8
datatypes8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
outworkers/phantom
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Schema safe, type-safe, reactive Scala driver for Cassandra/Datastax Enterprise
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 17 PRs, 70 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the `phantom` Scala driver, focusing on enhancements and fixes within the core codebase. They added features like `OptionalTimeUUIDColumn` and support for `SmallInt` and `TinyInt` datatypes. They also addressed issues related to `BigDecimal` usage in prepared statements and refactored code to allow query results to be handled as Scala iterators. Further contributions involved updating the project to Datastax Driver 3.0.0 and refactoring date-related columns, including the implementation of `LocalDateColumn` features.
cassandrareactive-streamstype-safescalasling
packt-wildfly/packt-java-ee-7-code-samples
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Java EE 7 Development with WildFly book code samples
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 8 months
java-eewildflynetbeansjava-ee-7code-book
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