Mihai Soloi
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMihai Soloi is a Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems, primarily in Scala (7 years) and recently Scala 3 with ZIO. He architected and operates a mission-critical Bonus Engine for a sportsbook platform serving millions across 30+ US states and Canadian provinces, owning an event-driven Kafka pipeline, Cassandra schemas, and full GitLab CI/CD to manage multi-jurisdiction deployments. His background spans real-time signal processing, state machines, and resilient microservices for domains from energy virtual power plants to financial and legal workflow automation. Mihai blends deep functional-programming practice (Cats, Monix, HTTP4s) with pragmatic DevOps (Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, SOPS) and a contract-first API approach, plus hands-on performance testing and tracing. He runs a consultancy, Lots of Lambdas, coaching teams to combine modern tech with software fundamentals—a hint at his belief that new tech must be grounded in solid theory. Based in London, he’s comfortable navigating complex regulatory environments and scaling systems that process millions of events per second.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Master's degree, Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)CourseraPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyCollege Matei Basarab
English, Romanian, French
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Github Skills (145)
compile-time10
cats-effect10
reactive10
async10
reactive-programming10
sbt-plugin10
sbt10
monix10
scala10
compiler-options10
compile10
asynchronous10
reactivex10
scalac10
scalajs10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mihaisoloi/conpaas
May 2013 - Jun 2013
the OW2 project, refactored
Contributions:77 commits in 1 month
refactoredow2
mihaisoloi/monix-kafka
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
kafkamonix
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