Senior Scala Developer (Language Tooling Dev & Backend Dev) at Alephium
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Simer 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 University
Diploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at Qld Institute of Business and Technology
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Simer Plaha - Senior Scala Developer (Language Tooling Dev & Backend Dev) at Alephium