Kotlin deep dive!

Welcome to our Kotlin night! For this event, we will have 3 speakers who all came from the Java world and now use Kotlin on large projects. Kotlin has become one of the preferred languages for backend applications in their organisations.

Talks

1. Kotlin Fundamentals and how it compares to Java (Denis Zhdanov, DKatalkis)
2. Asynchronous programming with Kotlin (Frederic Tu, Airwallex)
3. go beyond the JVM (Dapeng Liu, J.P. Morgan)

Speakers
Denis used to work for JetBrains, the company behind Kotlin. He was there to see the language being created and developed. He has since then worked on many Kotlin implementations, and now works as a Principal Engineer for DKATALIS.
Frederic has been a technical expert for the past 15 years. He originally worked with Java and made the switch to Kotlin a few years ago. He works as a Staff Engineer for Airwallex and has implemented Kotlin on complex architectures using concurrency with Kotlin Coroutines and Reactive programming. He works as a Staff Engineer for Airwallex.
Dapeng is a well-known speaker from our community. He has helped many teams to successfully migrate to Kotlin and Golang. He has led teams to process 5 million requests per second and built a massive banking application that spans hundreds of microservices. He currently leads the Blockchain-based payment development team at J.P. Morgan.

Audience
- polyglot teams
- people who want to get feedback from large scale Kotlin implementations
- people who want to know more about Kotlin (no prerequisites needed)
- people who want to know more about asynchronous programming