Jamie has worked in consulting since 1994, with top firms including Price Waterhouse and Chariot Solutions. He has a long track record of working closely with clients to build high­quality, mission­ critical systems that scale to meet the needs of their businesses, and has worked in myriad industries including automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and more. Jamie has been coding in Scala and actor­-based systems since 2009 and is the author of "Effective Akka" book from O'Reilly.