Nermin Šerifović has been a Scala enthusiast since 2009, practicing it professionally since 2011. For most of his career, he has focused on building backend platforms using JVM technologies. Most recently, as VP Engineering at Pingup, he has been leading the development efforts of a local services booking system.

Nermin is an instructor at Harvard Extension School, where he co-teaches the Concurrent Programming in Scala course and has also given talks at various conferences.

An active Scala community member, Nermin organized the Boston Area Scala Enthusiasts user group and was part of the Northeast Scala Symposium founding team. He is a co-author of the Scala Puzzlers book and co-creator of the Scala Puzzlers website.

Nermin holds an M.Eng in computer science from Cornell University, and his areas of interest include distributed systems, along with concurrent, reactive, and functional programming.