Jacek Laskowski (twitter: @jaceklaskowski) is an independent IT professional offering services as a team and tech leader, open source software developer, technology advocate, course instructor, blogger, conference speaker, community leader and organiser, technical advisor and IT business liaison. Jacek is operating on the JVM platform with Scala and Java as the two main languages of choice, and helping people get the most out of it.

His resolution this year is to promote the Scala language in Poland as a leader of the Warsaw Scala Enthusiasts group and working with top-notch software houses in Poland. Jacek is the founder and a former leader of Warszawa Java User Group in Warsaw, Poland. In 2015 he was accepted to an exclusive group of passionate Java technology and community leaders who are community-nominated and selected under a project sponsored by Oracle and became a Java Champion.