A short story
The humble story begins when a 6 year old boy deep in the heart of rural Greece was presented with an Amstrad computer back in 1988 and along with his father managed to write their first lines of code to create (I still remember it) a “guess the number” game written in BASIC. Fast forward many decades, this boy still loves coding, now as a means to create a product, and of top of that, a thriving business.
What have I done in my life
Beyond (formerly known as BeyondPricing) - San Francisco
May 2021 - today
Tech Lead and Fullstack engineer
- Billing Logic and UI
- Internal Tooling with custom tools (fullstack)
- Data Warehousing
Tech stack: Python Django, Elixir/Phoenix, ReactJS/Typescript, Postgresql, Dagster, RQ, GCP
Plum Fintech LLC - London/Athens
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Senior Backend Engineer
- Linking to banks and retrieving transactions.
- Product for switching utility bills from one provider to another
- Third party API integrations
- Payments and wallets
Tech stack: Python Flask, Celery, Kubernetes, Postgresql, GCP
Pakia Software LLC - Athens
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Co-founder & CEO
- Designed and implemented the core code of Pakia (InsurTech SaaS product)
- Actually, I did everything: from fundraising to cold calls. Classic founder stuff. Fun times.
Tech stack: Python Flask, AngularJs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Azure, S3
Virtual Trip - Athens
Nov 2006 - Jan 2015
Software Engineer
- Developed and implemented Insurance Manager (IM)
- Business planning and product strategy.
- Secure Document Issuing for the Hellenic Police.
- Globalization of an in-house application for Inform Lykos S.A.
- Developer and team leader of 3 developers developing windows applications for Inform Lykos S.A.
Tech Stack: C#.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server 2005, Visual C++.NET, Oracle 10i, JavaScript
Education
Bachelor of Science: Computer Engineering & Informatics
University of Patras - Patras