Hi, I’m Ludovic Abanda
a Senior Scala Developer.a Software Architect.an Open Source Evangelist.

I am Software Developer, Open Source enthusiast and Freelancer. Experienced backend developer, Software architect with over 5 years of experience developing and maintaining high-performance systems. Skilled in implementing new data management systems, streamlining data processing and improving data accuracy by 20%. I have Strong background in project ownership, student mentoring and building large scale applications (especially microservices).

What I Do

Backend Development

Technologies I use include: Scala, Java, Play, Akka, MongoDB, Postgres, Kafka, Zio, Cats Effects etc.

Software Architecture

Micoservice design, Event sourcing, Domain driven design, etc

Open Source Development and Student Mentoring

During my free time I love to contribute to Open source projects. I am also a long time participant in the Google Summer of Code and Code In programs as a student mentor.

5+ Years of Experience

My Resume

Other Skills

DevOps

70%

Open Source Development

80%

Micoservice Development"

95%

Experience

Senior Scala Developer

White Hat Gaming (December 2022 - September 2023)

White Hat Gaming is a state-of-the-art iGaming platform providing a secure, scalable and flexible modular Casino solution. At WHG I worked as a Scala backend developer, developing new scala based microservices and improving existing data intensive backend services mostly written in Scala. Intergrated our services with serveral 3rd party APIs to inprove players experience and added more features to the existing platform.

Senior Backend Developer

Bright Face Ads (September 2021 - November 2022)

Bright Face Ads is a Marketing Company with focus on display advertising. It provides its users with programmable Video Billboards for advertising. As Senior Backend Developer and Backend Lead at Bright Face Ads I design microservices for Bright Face Ads entire infrastructure. Most of the API's and services were designed using Scala, Akka, Zio, Cats Effect, Kafka, Docker etc, this enabled my team to work with one of the fastest growing functional programming ecosystems to create fault tolerant and resilient systems.

Agora Web Project Lead

AOSSIE (January 2019 - September 2021)

AOSSIE (Australian Open Source Softwares for Innovation and Education) is an Australian Organisation with some focus on education and open source. As the Agora Web Project Lead I had the responsibility to design the project’s roadmap and take the project to the next level, which will see the birth of several sub-projects for Agora Web . I was also responsible for mentoring new open source contributors especially during the Google Summer of Code programs in which I mentored scala base projects. For the past years our team has created an Android voting app (Agora Android), IOS app (Agora IOS) & a Slack app (Slagora). All of these are part of the Agora Web ecosystem which are based on the Agora API and the Agora library.

Agora Web Project Committer

AOSSIE (August 2018 - December 2019)

After a successful Google summer of Code participation, I joined the AOSSIE team to work on scala related projects especially the Agora Web API.

Google Summer of Code Intern

Australian Open Source Softwares for Innovation & Education, aka AOSSIE (May 2018 - August 2018)

I worked as an intern at AOSSIE during the Google summer of Code 2018 program. I was tasked with developing a RESTful API for Agora Web, a voting platform. The project later on became one of the fastest growing projects at AOSSIE as it has given birth to several sub projects which heavily rely on this API.

Open Source Contributor

Open Data Kit (March 2017 - May 2018)

ODK is USA based company which builds tools for Data collection across the world. As a java developer I worked with the team on projects such as ODK Collect (Mobile) and ODK Briefcase (Desktop). This was my first experience with the open source community and I would say it was a great way to kick start my career as a software developer.