Manuel Bernhardt is a passionate engineer, author, speaker, and consultant with a keen interest in the science of building and operating networked applications. Since 2008, he has guided and trained enterprise teams on the transition to distributed computing. In recent years, he has focused primarily on production systems that embrace the reactive application architecture, using Scala, Play Framework, and Akka to this end.
Manuel likes to travel and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He lives in Vienna where he is a co-organizer of the Scala Vienna User Group. Next to thinking, talking about, and fiddling with computers, he likes to spend time with his family, run, scuba-dive, and read. You can find out more about Manuel's recent work at http://manuel.bernhardt.io.