I'm Nadim Bahadoor, and have over a decade of hands-on experience building large scale systems in the Financial (Electronic Trading Platforms), Risk, Insurance and Life Science sectors. My passion for knowledge sharing and open-source steered me to launch http://allaboutscala.com as a platform to publish my hands-on experience with using the Scala ecosystem in Finance, Distributed Systems, Functional Programming, Big Data, Graph and/or Semantically Linked Data and, of course, my favorite - Machine Learning.  

From a Financial Engineering perspective, I have in-depth practical knowledge of multi-asset classes, including, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO), Passed-Through Bonds, Commodities, Futures, Equities, FX, Swaps, and Bespoke Non-Correlated Exotic Risks.  

As a committed technology enthusiast, I have hands-on expertise in the productionization of Electronic Trading Platforms, Data Engineering and Machine Learning pipelines, using various popular Big Data tools, such as, Cassandra, Spark, Zookeeper, Gremlin/TinkerPop, Kafka, Datomic, and others - besides having used these products since their early infancy days.  

I hold a Master in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA, and also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA.  

I was born on the picturesque island of Mauritius, spend as much time as I can with my family, and of course ... code here and there :)