Konrad `ktoso` Malawski

Current open-source work:

• Maintaining Apple's Server side focused observability API libraries, such as:
  • Swift Log,
  • Swift Metrics, and
  • Swift Distributed Tracing (which kicked off as a GSoC effort and became a fully fledged Swift server project later on).
• Contributed to Swift's Concurrency runtime, mostly around the task and structured concurrency runtime. Involved in the design of the actor runtime and co-author of a number of language evolution proposals.

Prior open-source work:

• Akka – core team, early 2014–late 2018
• Akka HTTP – core team, main maintainer for some time
• Reactive Streams (TCK) - which became part of Java 9+ via JEP-266
• git commit maven id plugin
• sbt-jmh, sbt-jol – the de-facto benchmarking tools in the Scala ecosystem, based on OpenJDK's fantastic JMH tool
• ...

Past Work:

• Akka Team @ Lightbend (Typesafe)
• Software Engineer @ eBay
• ...

Community work:

• GeeCON – core team member, co-responsible for speakers, ~1,200 people conference all around the JVM and not only in Poland (and Czech Republic)
• Founded and/or led:
• SCKRK (l, active), ScalaKraków (cf, active), PolishJUG (l), Lambda Lounge Kraków (f, dorm.), GDGKraków (cf, active, handed-over leadership)

Notable talks:

• [3/3] Networks & Types, the Future of Akka @ Scala Days 2018, New York City
• [2/3] The best is yet to come (overview of the Akka ecosystem and evolution) @ Scala Days 2017, Copenhagen
• [1/3] The Zen of Akka (collection of tips for Akka programming) @ ScalaMatsuri 2016, Tokyo
• The Need for Async @ Scala World 2015

Motto:

My motto "Life is Study!" is inspired by the first episode of the OVA series "Golden Boy", in which the protagonist learns programming against all odds: