Derek Wyatt

Derek Wyatt is a Software Architect and Developer specializing in large-scale, real-time applications for the World Wide Web. He's been working with Akka since the early days of 1.0 and has used it to implement a number of applications both large and small. After spending many years writing large concurrent systems in C++ using traditional concurrency mechansims, Derek now embraces the sophisticated, and beautiful simplicity of the paradigm presented in the Akka Toolkit. He also harbours a love...See more

Derek Wyatt is a Software Architect and Developer specializing in large-scale, real-time applications for the World Wide Web. He's been working with Akka since the early days of 1.0 and has used it to implement a number of applications both large and small. After spending many years writing large concurrent systems in C++ using traditional concurrency mechansims, Derek now embraces the sophisticated, and beautiful simplicity of the paradigm presented in the Akka Toolkit. He also harbours a love of the Vim text editor and the Unix command line that borders on the unhealthy. See less