Dean Wampler, co author, Programming Scala
Dean Wampler
co author, Programming Scala

Dean Wampler, Ph.D. is a consultant for Typesafe. He specializes in scalable, distributed, data-centric application development, “Big Data” or otherwise, applying Functional Programming principles with the Typesafe Reactive Platform, Hadoop, and other tools. Dean is a contributor to several open-source projects and the founder of the Chicago-Area Scala Enthusiasts. He is the co-author of “Programming Scala”, the author of “Functional Programming for Java Developers”, and the co-author of “Programming Hive”, all from O’Reilly. He pontificates on twitter, @deanwampler.