Speaker

Keir Lawson

Keir Lawson

Lead Engineer at Kaluza

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Keir is a lead engineer at Kaluza, an energy software business that offers leading retailers distributed, real-time energy billing, where he is responsible for the company’s external API and its integration with backend systems. Prior to this role he worked on automating operations across millions of smart meters using Kafka. Keir is also a frequent open source contributor within both the Scala and Rust ecosystems, including to Kafka related libraries such as fs2-kafka.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Energy and Basic Resources

Topics

  • Kafka
  • scala
  • functional programming
  • distributed systems

Keir Lawson

Lead Engineer at Kaluza

Edinburgh, United Kingdom