Thomas Avril
Senior Backend Engineer at EFREI - Grande école du numérique
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolThomas Avril is a Scala-focused software engineer and instructor based in Paris with nine years building distributed, asynchronous systems and mentoring teams. As Meetic’s first Scala hire and a key contributor to its Kafka/Akka/Spark stack, he blends backend engineering (Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Hadoop) with pragmatic leadership and international collaboration. He previously helped scale Particeep from a startup to 40+ employees as an early API developer and brings hands-on experience across JVM and .NET ecosystems. Now teaching a 30-hour Functional Programming with Scala course for master’s students, he pairs production-grade system design with a passion for making functional concepts accessible. An unusual strength is his track record of being the “first” specialist hire—shaping technical direction while growing others’ skills.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechCommunication d'entreprise & sciences de l'informatique, Communication d'entreprise & sciences de l'informatique at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree, Technologie informatique / technologie des systèmes informatiques, Master's degree, Technologie informatique / technologie des systèmes informatiques at California State University, Long BeachBac, Scientifique, Bac, Scientifique at Lycée Camus
French, English
Github Skills (18)
scala6
akka-http5
http4s5
sttp4
scala-native4
zio4
functional-programming4
http4
akka4
http-server4
dotty4
self-documenting4
openapi4
http-client3
documentation3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thavril/scala-http-server-benchmark
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
xahos/TheModdingOfIsaac
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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