Argh! If I'm in the midwest now can't I have worked in NYC before I moved here (which is what happened btw, now that you are so curious about my antecedents). And M has taken so many $ from me in the form of numerous OS updates & backups that I can justifiably call them M$ :) Should one be an intellectual to play around with scala ? Jeez.
Alright, truce. I thought I had remembered a Scala career question on Quant Stack Exchange (I'm a moderator there). So there are a couple finance shops that use it: