scala.bythebay.io: Jamie Allen 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! ----- Jamie Allen Starbucks Director of Engineering Jamie is Director of Engineering at Starbucks for the Unified Commerce Platform initiative, a project using Scala, Akka, pure FP and a microservice-based architecture to provide high-availability experiences for Starbucks customers. He previously spent over 4 years working at Typesafe/Lightbend, where he ran global services and presales groups. Jamie is a firm believer that pure FP provides the correctness our application domains require, while tools such as Akka provide the resilience capabilities that types cannot yet express.