scale.bythebay.io: Petr Zapletal Interview

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- Petr Zapletal Cake Solutions Lead Consultant New York City Twitter Tweet Websitetwitter.com/petr_zapletal Petr is a Software Engineer who specialises in the design and implementation of highly scaleable, reactive and resilient distributed systems. He is a functional programming and open source enthusiast and has expertise in the area of big data and machine classification techniques. Petr participates in the whole software delivery life-cycle: from requirement analysis & design through to maintaining systems in production. During his career Petr has worked for various companies, from start-ups to large international corporations. Technically, Petr is SMACK (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka) evangelist. Petr enjoys working with Akka and has deep knowledge of toolkit’s features like Akka Clustering, Distributed Data or Akka Persistence. Petr is also certified Spark Developer.