Bio
Akif is a senior software engineer with over 9 years of professional experience in the software industry. He has worked with companies globally, providing consulting and training services. Akif’s expertise lies in JVM technologies, Scala, Java, and Kotlin, and he is skilled in both object-oriented and functional programming. He has a solid understanding of CI/CD, testing, databases, cloud applications, and microservices. Akif is passionate about open-source software and has created several tools to help developers, including ‘e’, a zero-dependency micro-library for JVM error handling, ‘k-retry’, a Kotlin-based retry implementation, and ‘effect’, a functional effect system with powerful errors built in Scala. Outside of work, Akif enjoys traveling, cooking, and listening to rock and metal music.