unfortunately one of the best ways to make a mark and functional programming is to contribute to open source projects supported by companies that use functional

unfortunately one of the best ways to make a mark and functional programming is to contribute to open source projects supported by companies that use functional programming. you can also focus on Research companies. there are a lot of research contractors that have strong functional programming communities like Galois, MSR, and Charles River analytics. companies that focus on programming languages and formal methods. finally becoming proficient in a language like F# or Elm scala has a lot of application and supportive industry market. I would suggest following conferences like strange loop, for some reason a lot of speakers for strange loop work with functional programming languages