Artūras Šlajus
Product & Engineering at Mill Build Tool (https://mill-build.com/)
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolArtūras Šlajus is a product-oriented engineering leader and serial founder with 17 years of experience building high-availability backend systems, games, and developer tooling across statically typed ecosystems. He blends hands-on expertise in Scala, C#, Unity3D and functional libraries (Cats Effect, FS2, http4s) with a deep background in Linux networking, CI/CD and distributed architectures. As a technical cofounder and CTO he has grown and coached teams, shipped cross-platform games and designed production systems for analytics, remote config and ad networks. He contributes to prominent open-source Scala projects (notably improving error handling in http4s) and quickly adopts advanced languages like Rust and Idris for hobby projects. Known for preferring type-safe designs after an earlier phase favoring dynamic languages, he thrives at the intersection of game dev, typesafe programming and scalable, always-on services. Based in Kaunas, Lithuania, he currently leads product and engineering efforts for AI-driven customer support and contributes to the Mill build tool.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Kaunas University of TechnologyKaunas Pranas Mašiotas Primary SchoolKaunas Tadas Ivanauskas gymnasium
English, Lithuanian
Github Skills (8)
cat10
http10
http-server10
error-handling10
fs10
scala10
typer8
top-level8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
http4s/http4s
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Artūras primarily contributed to the server-side logic of the `http4s/http4s` project. Their work focused on improving error handling, specifically addressing `NoSuchElementException` in TLS socket protocols and enabling custom error handling during connection failures. They also made changes to the server builder, incorporating features to handle errors more effectively, and addressing formatting issues in existing codebase.
scalahttp-serverhttp-clientfs2typelevel
arturaz/ruby_extensions
Oct 2008 - Aug 2012
Contributions:27 commits in 3 years 10 months
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