Ivan NikolovIvan 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 studes Ivan found an interest in technologies helping to deal with big amounts of data. His professional career has given him the chance to work with cutting edge BigData technologies on a daily basis. Some of the more interesting projects Ivan has worked on include a large scale real-time predictive analytics engine and batch processing solutions. He has used the Scala programming language in all of them in combination with technologies and libraries like Spark, Hadoop, Scalding, Cassandra, Kafka, etc. as well as other JVM languages like Java. Ivan's approach to software engineering is very personal and he takes pride in the projects he works on. He is extremely strict and keen on writing efficient and beautiful code. Apart f Read More Read Less