# My Journey

I started my career from **Java EE application** development and, after three years of my career, I got a chance to work on the Scala language. Initially, for me, Scala was something similar to **Java 8** and I started to write code in Scala as a way of using standard Java, including using semicolons. After some time, I realized potential for improvements to the code, that I had written. For learning and exploring Scala, I joined Knoldus, where I got a chance to learn Scala and explore lightbend stack. After that, I realized and started my new journey with Scala functional stack which gives me an amazing flavor of the new paradigm. <br>

Initially, I thought, all features are in the **type system**, similar to Java generics. However, I soon found this was not true. While exploring **Functional Programming**, I saw the power of the Scala type system. The Scala type system is not limited to generics classes. It is more than that. For learning Functional Programming, I did my best to find the resources. During that time, [**John.De.Goes**](http://degoes.net/) started expanding the **Scalaz** community and create a group of people to take ownership of open source scala FP libraries, which are based on [**ZIO**](https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz-zio). When I was attending one or two meetings by John, I realized that Scala FP libraries are based on one important factor, which is called a **Type System**. After some more findings, I found Haskell; a pure FP language that is also based on a powerful type system. In Haskell, if your code has succeeded in compiling, this means that there is an approximately 90% percent chance that your code will run successfully.<br>

After joining Knoldus, I usually share knowledge using internal sessions which are called **Knolx** but from the year **2018**, I started to sharing knowledge on **conferences**, which gives me the opportunity to learn more and more. For more information about my sessions, you can visit my portfoli&#x6F;**:** [**http://harmeetsingh.dev**](http://harmeetsingh.dev/) :nerd:&#x20;