Radek Busz
Senior Scala Engineer at SiriusXM
London, England, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRadek Busz is a Senior Scala Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reactive, distributed systems across major streaming and travel platforms including SiriusXM, Disney Streaming, and Expedia. He blends deep JVM expertise (Scala, Java 8, Akka, Play, Vert.x) with pragmatic TDD and CI/CD practices, and has a track record of improving core frameworks—most notably contributing feature and readability improvements to the popular Vert.x project. Comfortable in multinational Agile teams, Radek pairs strong troubleshooting instincts with a continual appetite for advanced functional programming, Big Data and machine learning. He has practical production experience with Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Docker and Kubernetes, and a history of introducing modern Java language features and refactors that reduce technical debt. Radek holds advanced software development degrees from Poznan University of Technology and maintains an active engineering footprint via his GitHub and personal site.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, A at Poznan University of Technology
English, German, Russian
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
vertx10
reactive-programming10
event-loop10
java10
concurrency9
http8
non-blocking7
nio7
tomcat6
cross-domain6
asynchronous6
street-address6
jquery6
couchbase6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-vertx/vert.x
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Radek primarily contributed to the core Java-based Vert.x framework, implementing features and refactoring code. They introduced new Java language features (diamond operator) and improved code readability by converting statement lambdas to expression lambdas, and removing unnecessary casting. Their work involved modifying various core components related to event loops, DNS, HTTP, event bus, and general utility classes, and ensuring the proper functioning of the Vert.x framework.
non-blockingconcurrencytool-kitevent-loophttp2
gitplaneta/scala-learning
May 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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