About the Author

Pascal Bugnion is a data engineer at the ASI, a consultancy offering bespoke data science services. Previously, he was the head of data engineering at SCL Elections. He holds a PhD in computational physics from Cambridge University.

Besides Scala, Pascal is a keen Python developer. He has contributed to NumPy, matplotlib and IPython. He also maintains scikit-monaco, an open source library for Monte Carlo integration. He currently lives in London, UK.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my parents and my partner for supporting me in this, as well as my employer for encouraging me to pursue this project. I also thank the reviewers, Umanga Bista, Yuanhang Wang, and Radek Ostrowski for their tireless efforts, as well as the entire team at Packt for their support, advice, and hard work carrying this book to completion.