Michael Pilquist is the author of Scodec, a suite of open source Scala libraries for working with binary data, and Simulacrum, a library that simplifies working with type classes. He is a committer/maintainer on a number of other projects in the Scala ecosystem, including Cats and FS2. He works as a Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, where he uses Scala and functional programming to build video systems. At Comcast, he adopted Scala in 2008 and has taught Scala & FP to many teams at the company.