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• Senior Backend Engineer, Form3

  Apr, 2023 - Present

  Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and manages payment technology.

• Senior Backend Engineer, Kraken

  Mar, 2022 - Dec, 20229 months

  Kraken is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange and bank, founded in 2011.

  • Build and manage GRPC API's with Golang

  • Develop and maintain GraphQL endpoints (Apollo)

  • Introduce distributed tracing into the stack (opentelemetry & tempo)

• Lead Backend Engineer - Co Founder, Flyway

  Nov, 2020 - Mar, 20221 year 4 months

  Flyway is an all-in-one solution that makes second home ownership easy and affordable.

  • Build and manage Restful webservices with Golang

  • Develop and support web applications

  • Create and maintain k8s cluster on amazon (EKS)

• Senior Engineering Manager, Beat

  Jan, 2020 - Nov, 202010 months

  A fast-growing ride-hailing company with millions of users and strong presence in four countries. A Daimler subsidiary since 2017.

  • Manage several cross-functional teams of the Ride domain

  • Lead the hiring process of backend engineers (Ride domain)

  • Contributing to open-source projects

• Lead Backend Engineer, Beat

  Feb, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 11 months

  A fast-growing ride-hailing company with millions of users and strong presence in four countries. A Daimler subsidiary since 2017.

  • Lead a cross-functional team on the Ride domain

  • Helping breaking PHP monolithic application into microservices

  • Involved in hiring process of backend engineers

• Senior Backend Engineer, Beat

  Jun, 2016 - Feb, 20181 year 8 months

  A fast-growing ride-hailing company with millions of users and strong presence in four countries. A Daimler subsidiary since 2017.

  • Build and manage Restful webservices.

  • Develop and support web applications with Golang and PHP.

  • Integrate with 3d party APIs.

  • Guide and train other software engineers.

  • Collaborate with devops team and helping in containerization of the stack.

  • Part of an agile product team working under scrum process. Develop new features and maintaining/supporting old codebase.

  • Helping breaking PHP monolithic application into microservices.

  • Involved in hiring process of backend engineers.

• Software Engineer, Profile Software

  Feb, 2016 - Jun, 20164 months

  Profile Software is an award-winning solutions provider with presence in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and America, delivering market-proven solutions to the Investment Management and Banking industries.

  • Front-end development using Angular js v1 (Axia product)

• Software Engineer/Android developer, Velti SA

  Apr, 2015 - Jan, 20169 months

  Velti was founded in 2000 and is a leading provider of innovative mobile-centric marketing, customer retention and content based solutions trusted globally by hundreds of mobile operators, brands and media groups.

  • Discovering new technologies (R&D).

  • Making demos for European projects.

  • Backend and frontend development (using node js, djanco python and other frameworks).

  • Android native development.

  • Spring, hibernate development.

  • Creating a recommendation engine using Mahout.

  • Elastic search - logstash - Kibana analytics (ELK stack).

  • Manage hadoop cluster (Writing map reduce (1.0) jobs, analyse data using pig and hive).

• Software Engineer, Creating Ideas

  Dec, 2013 - Apr, 20151 year 3 months

  Candi is a small professional team with experience in internet services & marketing.

  • Create and maintain vanilla PHP applications.

  • CS-cart addon development.

  • Wordpress/Joomla plugin/modules development.

  • Android native development.

  • Maintaining a custom CMS in Asp classic.

• Software Engineer/Android developer (Part time), Aratos Technologies S.A.

  Feb, 2013 - Dec, 201310 months

  Aratos Technologies S.A. was founded in 1995 and is one of the first European downstream value-added services company in the space sector.

  • Android native development.

  • Backend development with PHP.

  • Frontend development with Jquery, css3, html5.

  • Wordpress and joomla website/plugin/module development.

• Web developer/Technical Support (External Collabortator), Assistant Professor Stella Kyvelou

  Nov, 2011 - Aug, 20142 years 9 months

  Working as external collaborator for the ESPON Contact Point Laboratory (under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Stella Kyvelou) for technical support and web/software development issues. I was also participated in the USESPON Project, working for the USESPON Virtual Learning Environment (espontrain.eu).

• Software engineer, Freelancer

  Nov, 2010 - Jan, 20154 years 2 months

  My experiences range from building high scalable responsive mobile sites that work well cross-browser to building enterprise android mobile apps.

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