L Denney
L is a Google Summer of Code Contributor at Typelevel working on an optimized immutable linked list datatype project for the cats-collections library. He graduated in 2026 from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science where he first became interested in functional programming. L is excited to be part of the Typelevel community and is looking forward to learning as much as possible from the experience.
Typelevel
GSoC Contributor
Session
What optimizations can we find by making a simple change to a traditional data structure? In the summer of 2026 I developed a faster immutable linked list; implementing it was my first experience both writing Scala and working with an open source community. This talk explores my approach to data structure optimization and my acquisition of Scala.