I've been using Akka for 5+ years, have been involved into two medium and large scale projects, shared my experience at conferenes and meetups.

I use various integration testing technics from the very beginning of my career. Every situation is different and requires some analysis in order to build a stable and robust testing model. However one thing is sure: when you write integration test you get benefits from the first minute, for it's certainly easier to click 'Run' then making dozens of manual steps in order to ensure that there is no regression in your app.

I love TDD. It helps to create much better design and makes you think more thoroughly about your interfaces, classes and methods. With experiences you start to understand what is the 'right' amount of unit tests that has to be written.

Being a scrum master I can surely say that nowadays scrum is _the_ way of building software. It helps to keep a nice productivity without hassle and mess in the requirements and minds of developers and stakeholders.

I started using Angular when it was still 0.x and became very enthusiastic about it. Besides creating few pull requests I arranged several talks about Angular and created many small apps that use it. Now I have to deal with AngularJS code almost every day.

As one of SVN haters I'm using GIT for already pretty long. I've been working with github, bitbucket, standalone git servers, completely distributed models etc.

jQuery is a very important building block of Internet and almost every JS library touches it this way or another.

Language of choice. Conference and meetup speaker.

I've been doing a lot of Java in the past. Although I'm mostly focusing on Scala now, Java knowledge is still there.

I've been using Javascript for a very long time. In fact, efficient use of my favourite JS framework: AngularJS would be impossible without knowing how Javascript works underneath.

I love typescript for bringing first-class type safety into frontend development.

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Mike K.

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Technical skills