Nicholas Sterling

Austin, Texas Area United States

Principal Software Architect at Khaylo

Technology / Software / Internet

I'm a seasoned software engineer with a Mathematics background and an analytical bent. I enjoy collaboration and typically end up being a resource for other developers, e.g. in Scala, JVM bytecode/internals, concurrency, shell programming, or algorithms in general. But generally my most important contributions are at the architectural level. I started learning Scala in earnest shortly before the 2.8 release in 2010, and quickly grew to like it. I had had some exposure to Lisp in college, and functional programming appealed to my mathematical side. Over time I managed to convert my team to Scala, laying out the architecture for them and supporting their learning. I have been writing s...