L Denney
L is a Google Summer of Code Contributor at Typelevel working on an optimized immutable linked list datatype project for the cats-collections library. He graduated in 2026 from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science where he first became interested in functional programming. L is excited to be part of the Typelevel community and is looking forward to learning as much as possible from the experience.
Sessions
A Maiden Voyage into Open Source, Datatypes, and Scala
Lightning Talk
12. October 2026, 12:10 - 12:15
Kesselhaus
What optimizations can we find by making a simple change to a traditional data structure? In the summer of 2026 I developed a faster immutable linked list; implementing it was my first experience both writing Scala and working with an open source community. This talk explores my approach to data structure optimization and my acquisition of Scala.