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Hello, I am Stavros.
I make things.

About

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Senior Full Stack Engineer with 9+ years of experience building large-scale web applications and APIs. Scaled products to 200K+ users, developed APIs handling millions of requests annually & used by 100+ engineers, and built apps processing 10K+ daily transactions. Led teams of up to 8 people and delivered products used by IBM, u-Blox, Deloitte, and more.

Work Experience

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Peacock
Freelance

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Chicago, IL, USA
Developed an online video editing platform primarily focused on the creation of short video ads. Leading customers include Twitter, L`Oreal, LEGO, American Express, Red Bull, Disney, Warner Bros, and Marvel
Typescript
React
Tailwind
GraphQL
MongoDB
Microservices
Docker
Google Cloud
CircleCI
Pulumi
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TwitterKit

Founder
Athens, Greece
Founded and led TwitterKit, a B2C SaaS web app that helped Twitter power users run Twitter on autopilot leveraging AI. Led a team of 3 people, oversaw product development, engineering, and marketing, & grew the product to 130+ customers
NextJS
TailwindCSS
PostgreSQL
Strapi
Nodejs
Google Cloud
Terraform
Docker
R

Redhawk Research
Freelance

Senior Full Stack Engineer
New York, USA
Developed a SaaS foreclosure management application for the US. The app allows users to keep track of the foreclosure process on each US state and allows different team types, like law firms, to connect and update the status of each step, as well as, assign tasks, upload documents, and update milestones
React
MUI
Stripe
GraphQL
Strapi
Nodejs
Google Cloud
Python
Terraform
Docker
D

Data Communication S.A.

Engineering Manager
Athens, Greece
Managed a team of 8 on building a B2B SaaS web app that connects bookkeeping data with the Greek tax authorities. This application is being used by Greece`s largest companies like Deloitte, Grant Thornton, the national water supply company(EYDAP), major insurance companies like EuroLife, and others.
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IBM

Full Stack Engineer
London, UK
Worked as part of IBM’s Chief Information Office where my team was responsible for redesigning and rebuilding a search engine used by 210k Business Partners. The initial search engine was 500k lines of Java with millions of database rows constituting of tens of services. We rearchitectured the whole system design, rethought the user experience, and implemented the search engine from scratch using modern technologies and Agile practices
Express
GraphQL
VueJS
Java
Jest
Cypress
Travis
SQL
IBM Cloud
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Ublox S.A.

Backend Security Engineer
London, UK
Developed the company`s cryptographic API that is used for signing the firmware of thousands of hardware modules for Secure Boot at the manufacturing stage, as well as for any cryptographic operation by the company`s software engineers
C#
Javascript
AWS
Jenkins
Bouncy Castle
Cryptography
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Data Communication S.A.

Software Engineer
Athens, Greece
Worked as member of a 5-person team developing a targeted to the pharmaceutical industry software solution, based on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform
C#
Javascript
SQL

Skills

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languages

Javascript
Typescript
Python
C#

frontend

React
NextJS
Tailwind
shadcn/ui

backend

Nodejs
Express
Strapi
REST
GraphQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Microservices
FaaS

cloud infra

Google Cloud
AWS
Vercel
Pulumi
Terraform
Docker
CI/CD
CircleCI
Pub/Sub

other

Cryptography
Cyber Security
OpenAI
Projects

Check out my latest work

I have been involved in numerous projects. Here are some of my top picks.

Shortsmaker

Shortsmaker is a tool to automatically create short videos with AI generated images and voiceovers

Next.js
Typescript
MongoDB
Tailwind CSS
Stripe
Shadcn UI
Cloud Functions

Curly_

If you are applying to jobs and want an easy way to keep track of them instead of entering the details manually in an excel file, Curly is for you. It automatically extracts the job details and saves them for you just by using the url

Next.js
Typescript
MongoDB
Tailwind CSS
Clerk
Shadcn UI
Cloud Functions
Puppeteer

Twitter Frontend Clone

Built an open source frontend clone of Twitter

Next.js
Typescript
Tailwind CSS

Minimal Blog Starter

Developed a minimal blog starter

Next.js
Typescript
Tailwind CSS
Shadcn UI