Tomáš Mikula
Senior Backend Engineer at QAD Redzone
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTomáš Mikula is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building robust, production-ready systems and a strong focus on Scala and functional programming. He has held senior and lead roles at organizations including Barclays and JetBrains and currently contributes at QAD Redzone from the UK. An active open-source contributor, Tomáš has made substantive, performance- and stack-safety-focused contributions to high-profile Scala libraries such as scalaz and cats, and has worked on language and tooling projects like Unison and kind-projector. His background spans DSL/IDE development, bioinformatics data analysis, and low-level library design, giving him a rare mix of applied research and pragmatic engineering. Notably, he has a history of improving stack safety and refactoring core abstractions in functional libraries—work that prevents subtle runtime failures in large codebases. He pairs academic training in computer science with hands-on delivery across fintech, developer-tools, and scientific domains.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandespart-time Ph.D. student (discontinued) Computer Science, part-time Ph.D. student (discontinued) Computer Science at Charles University
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Github Skills (41)
algorithm10
library-design10
algorithms10
programming-language10
text-editor10
typeclass10
rich-text10
scalaz10
compiler-plugin10
javafx10
data-structure10
java10
scala10
type-system10
javas10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FXMisc/RichTextFX
Oct 2013 - Apr 2017
Rich-text area for JavaFX
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 499 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tomáš appears to be a full-stack developer focused on adding features and improving the functionality of a rich-text area for JavaFX. They contributed by adding source code and build files, modifying the UI/GUI and demo examples, and adding style classes to improve user interaction with the text area. These changes involved a variety of Java-based libraries and frameworks, with particular attention to details like handling line terminators, positioning popups, and implementing correct rendering of the text.
javafxrich-textrich-text-editorjava
typelevel/kind-projector
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
Compiler plugin for making type lambdas (type projections) easier to write
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 24 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tomáš primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `kind-projector` compiler plugin, a Scala-based tool. Their work involved fixing bugs related to type lambda syntax and higher-order placeholder handling. They also made changes to the plugin's internal logic, including the rewrite rules and versioning, and modified the build configuration.
compiler-pluginlambdas
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