About the Author

Ivan Nikolov is a software engineer living and working in London. After he graduated with an award of distinction from the University of Edinburgh in 2012, he moved to London and started working for a company in the ad tech industry. During his studies, Ivan developed an interest in technologies that help in dealing with a large amount of data. His professional career has given him the chance to work with cutting edge big data technologies on a daily basis. Some of the interesting projects that Ivan has worked on include a large scale real-time predictive analytics engine and batch processing solutions. He has used Scala in all of these projects in combination with technologies and libraries such as Spark, Hadoop, Scalding, Cassandra, Kafka, and so on, as well as other JVM languages such as Java.

Ivan's approach to software engineering is very personal, and he takes pride in the projects he works on. He is extremely meticulous about writing efficient and beautiful code.

Apart from programming and learning about new languages and technologies, in his free time, Ivan likes to participate in sports activities, travel, meet people, and explore new places and cultures. He also likes photography, especially nature and wildlife.

In his spare time, Ivan tries to keep himself busy with personal projects and learning about new technologies. He also runs a small programming blog where he writes articles about important programming concepts. Ivan believes that knowledge sharing is an essential part of keeping the software and more specifically, the open source community running. Sharing ideas leads to greater innovation and raises the quality of products to a higher level.