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Alejandro Serrano Mena

Researcher @ Kotlin Language Evolution Team
Alejandro Serrano Mena

Alejandro Serrano Mena is a passionate of formal methods and functional programming in software development, especially using Kotlin and Haskell as languages. He works as researcher in the Kotlin Language Evolution team at JetBrains and helps co-maintaining the Arrow library. He enjoys not only using and improving those tools, but also spreading the word: he's written four books targeting different levels, regularly gives talks in conferences and meetups.

For quite some time Alejandro was an academic, working on the area of compilers and type systems for functional languages. His PhD thesis versed over error messages, and he's been involved in efforts like improving GHC's support for impredicativity. This knowledge is put in practice in several open source projects, many of them using metaprogramming techniques or compiler extensions.

Asynchronous Programming With Kotlin Coroutines.

Sebastian Aigner, Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, Alejandro Serrano Mena

IntermediateWorkshop

May 21, 09:0017:00

The wonders of smart casting

Alejandro Serrano Mena

Intermediate

May 22, 14:0014:15