Mikaël Valot is Principal Software Engineer at IHS Markit in London, UK. He is the lead developer of a strategic market risk solution for banking regulation.rnrnHe has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry of the UK, Switzerland, and France. He has a Diplôme d'Ingénieur in Computing (equivalent to an M.Sc.) from Telecom Nancy, France.rnrnAfter years of working with Java, he started developing professionally with Scala in 2010, and never looked back. He was a speaker at Scala Exchange 2015.rnrnWhen he is not coding in Scala, Mikaël likes to dabble with Haskell, the Robotic Operating System, and deep learning.rnrnHe strongly believes that functional programming with strong typing is the best way to write safe and scalable programs.
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