Valentin Kasas
Lead Engineer at Kanaka
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolValentin Kasas is a Lead Engineer based in the Greater Paris area with 11 years of experience building backend systems and guiding teams across enterprises and startups. A longtime Scala specialist and functional programming advocate, he combines hands-on development as a freelance consultant with leadership roles at Xebia and 47 Degrees. His background spans technical leadership at public-sector and large corporate clients (La Poste, MNT) as well as teaching Spark internals, reflecting both deep systems knowledge and an ability to transfer that knowledge. Comfortable across JVM ecosystems and distributed data platforms, he often bridges architecture, coaching, and implementation to deliver pragmatic, testable solutions. Notably, he pairs industrial engineering experience with early-career game programming roots, which gives him a practical, performance-minded approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master Informatique des systèmes embarqués, Master Informatique des systèmes embarqués at Université Paris 8
English
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7answers
4questions
Github Skills (102)
concurrent-programming10
continuation10
effects10
generic-programming10
transpiler10
concurrency10
data-validation10
async10
zio10
algebraic-data-types10
concurrent10
dsl10
databricks10
raii10
scala10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vil1/schemaz
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
A purely-functional library for defining type-safe schemas for algebraic data types, providing free generators, SQL queries, JSON codecs, binary codecs, and migration from this schema definition
Contributions:1 PR, 79 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 6 months
codecstype-safedefinitionqueriessql-queries
vil1/recursion-schemes-cookbook
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
A friendly guide for leveraging the power of recursion schemes in real-world applications
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 months
crosswordcookbookleveragingrecursion-schemesschemes
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