Alexander is a software engineer at ITV, writing micro-services for the automation of content delivery using functional libraries and the typelevel stack including Cats, Http4s, Doobie and Circe. He has been writing software with Scala for 2 years and has contributed to a number of open source projects including http4s. An advocate for pragmatic FP, he contributes to knowledge sharing through brown-bags, mentoring and tutorial videos.
Talks I've Given
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Functional Composition and the Kleisli
Featuring Alexander Worton
During this talk, we will explore functional composition from the ground up. Find out about the different ways functions can be composed to form larger pieces of software, using both the standard library and the Kleisli from functional libraries scalaz and cats, while looking at the advantages...
scala typelevel testing functional-composition kleisli scalax