Phil Derome
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Centre Wellington, Ontario, Other
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Derome is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance systems across finance and networking, currently focused on functional programming in Haskell and Scala with ZIO. As a self-employed developer he has contributed to Awake Security (Arista NDR) and Arista Networks, bringing practical expertise in streaming, distributed systems and protocol-heavy domains. His background spans senior engineering and architecture roles at major banks and trading firms where he delivered low-latency trading infrastructure, streaming ETL, and scalable data platforms. He also runs his own fintech venture, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive alongside deep technical chops. With an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a long history of moving between C++, Java, Scala and modern functional stacks, he combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic production experience.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science, B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science at Université de MontréalM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at University of Toronto
French, English, magyar
Stackoverflow
11reputation
251reached
1answer
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Github Skills (163)
concurrent-programming10
continuation10
compile-time10
linq10
effects10
category-theory10
concurrency10
streaming10
async10
zio10
uri10
database10
kafka-consumer10
concurrent10
cassandra10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
phderome/scalaLiftDemo
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 128 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
javascriptgoogle-mapscalalcbolift
phderome/zio
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for asynchronous and concurrent programming in Scala
Contributions:22 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
functional-programmingstreamsmonadsdottyasync
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