Simon Schenk
Senior Scala Engineer And Solutions Architect at Ziverge
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Schenk is a Senior Scala Engineer and Solutions Architect with 13 years of experience building data-intensive, distributed systems and leading teams from greenfield to production. Based in Lübeck, Germany, he has led risk management platforms in payments and extended large event-detection systems in cybersecurity, combining hands-on Scala/ZIO development with architecture and delivery ownership. He co-founded risk-focused startups and moved semantic-web research into commercial products early in his career, demonstrating a blend of research rigour and product-minded execution. An active contributor to the ZIO ecosystem, he implemented Reactive Streams interop and performance fixes for the widely used zio/zio library, showing attention to both correctness and runtime efficiency. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic continuous delivery practices and for scaling fast-data applications in high-stakes domains like fraud and credit risk.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Wirtschaftsinf. (FH), Wirtschaftsinformatik, Dipl. Wirtschaftsinf. (FH), Wirtschaftsinformatik at Fachhochschule Nordakademie ElmshornKarlstads universitetUniversität Koblenz-LandauKarlstad UniversityUniversität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
German, English
Github Skills (8)
asynchronous10
stream10
reactive-streams10
zio10
functional-programming10
async10
concurrency10
scala10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 19 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the implementation of a Reactive Streams interop module for the ZIO library. This involved creating `StreamPublisher` and `SinkSubscriber` classes, and integrating them to allow for conversions between ZIO streams and Reactive Streams. The user also worked on several bug fixes, including addressing race conditions related to queue shutdown, and performance optimizations. Further, the user also made adjustments to build files and added documentation.
functional-programmingqueuesstreamsasynchronicityasync
zio-archive/interop-reactive-streams
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Interoperability Layer Between ZIO and Reactive Streams
Contributions:30 releases, 79 reviews, 81 commits in 3 years 4 months
ziostreamsinteroperabilityreactive-streamsscala
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