Kiko Fernandez-Reyes

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Uppsala, Sweden

Kiko is a PhD student in programming languages and the main lecturer of the course Advanced Software Design at Uppsala University. He is also a core developer of the Encore programming language, has written research publications about concurrent and parallel data structures and has won two Best Paper awards and two Distinguished Artifact awards in his short (yet) academic career.

He is currently deciding whether to continue on academia or do industrial research. Feel free to reach him via twitter (@kikofernandez) or email (kiko.fernandez@it.uu.se).

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Thanks, I didn't know anything about it

I am using the Pony runtime and you will not see a single lock, everything is made using lock-free data structures. I do not know that much about Pony but the runtime is fantastic. Sylvan Clesch had done an outstanding work