Simer Plaha
Senior Scala Developer (Language Tooling Dev & Backend Dev) at Alephium
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSimer Plaha is a Senior Scala Developer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building language tooling and backend systems for blockchain and web platforms. He currently develops the Ralph LSP for Alephium and optimises Scala backend services and PostgreSQL schemas for high-performance explorer APIs. A prolific open-source maintainer, his projects include SwayDB (a storage engine), Slack3D and JustSQL, reflecting deep systems and storage expertise beyond typical application work. His background spans Akka, Scala.js, real-time systems and event-sourced microservices, showing strength across both server-side concurrency and interactive UIs. Colleagues note his knack for translating complex domain logic into reliable, performant code and for squeezing extra performance from databases and queries. He brings a pragmatic engineering mechanics mindset—treating architecture as both design and measurable machinery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Griffith UniversityDiploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at Qld Institute of Business and Technology
English
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Github Skills (108)
sharding10
backend10
streaming10
storage-engine10
reactive10
java-bytecode10
gwt10
akka10
persistent-storage10
war10
high-performance10
outwatch10
database10
scalajs-react10
key-value-store10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simerplaha/SwayDB.scala.examples
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:115 commits, 124 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
simerplaha/html-to-scala-converter
Apr 2016 - Jun 2022
HTML converter for Scalatags, Scalajs-react, Laminar, Outwatch & Tyrian
Contributions:106 commits, 6 PRs, 90 pushes in 6 years 3 months
converterreactoutwatchscalajsscalajs-react
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