Aris Kostakos
Senior Back-End Developer
Athens,Greece
Summary
Experienced Software Engineer with over 10 years of professional experience in software architecture, problem solving and writing code. As a team leader I have pushed for methodologies and in-house tools that have tripled production and streamlined development in a demanding corporate environment. Programming from the age of eight I have a demonstrated history of working with a slew of languages, platforms and technologies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Director of Technology
Rappid Studios
Athens, Greece
02.2021 - 07.2022
- Led development on two mobile games that have attracted over 10 million users world-wide.
- Optimized product pipeline development and improved production time for future games.
Senior Back-End Developer
Cope Digital Agency
Athens, Greece
05.2020 - 12.2020
- Led a small team where we trained agents to detect malicious requests done on web services.
- The algorithm was seamlessly integrated to the product's Go micro-service framework.
Back-End Developer
Beat
Athens, Greece
01.2019 - 04.2020
- Helped migrate our back-end core service from legacy PHP monolith to Go micro-services.
- Optimized driver dispatch, cutting down 60% of our monthly costs to Google Distance Matrix API.
- Lead a working group which introduced contract testing (PACT) to the entire infrastructure, that lead to more robust CI/CD and less regression tests.
Software Developer
Freelance
Athens, Greece
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Designed and developed RESTful web service for online insurance portal.
- Created specification for a complete solution for a Location Based VR start-up.
- Developed educational games across web and mobile platforms for Ellinopoula.com.
Startup Founder
Spark Inspirations
Athens, Greece
05.2014 - 02.2017
- Developed a cross-platform, online game engine and established a big fan-base and active community.
- Received $20K USD of equity free funding from Start-Up Chile.
- Spark was selected from thousands of applications as part of the 100 startups to compete.
- Spark was used in-house to rapidly create more than 10 games for clients, many of which achieved critical praise and awards.
Software Developer
C.A.L.L. Edutainment
Athens, Greece
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Lead Development on award-winning educational game.
- Improved productivity by automating many content creation tasks which resulted in up to 20% higher throughput.
Software Developer
Express Publishing
Athens, Greece
02.2012 - 12.2014
- Developed a solution from scratch that automated 90% of the process of converting printed material to a digital interactive form.
- Improved quality by enriching media on ebooks, resulting in 3 nominations for ELTon awards.
Software Developer
Metrics Advanced
Athens, Greece
06.2011 - 01.2012
- Worked on big data analytics for nation wide research on the effects of smoking.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, ScotlandSkills
Programming Languages: Go, Python, PHP, Java Enterprise, C, C#, JS, NodeJs
Products: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, React, AWS, Google Cloud, Jenkins, Travis, Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, Elastic, Kafka, Prometheus, Kibana, Unreal Engine
Other Skills: OOP, Design Patterns, Git, Contract Testing, CI/ CD, Test Driven Development, Pen-Testing, Scrum, Networking, Linux
Certification
Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (PWK/PEN-200)
Affiliations
- Start-Up Chile, South Summit, Rails Girls Workshop, GameDev Planet Santiago, Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
- Ethical Hacking, Tennis, Chess, Poker, RTS Games, Board Games
Timeline
Director of Technology
Rappid Studios
02.2021 - 07.2022
Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (PWK/PEN-200)
09-2020
Senior Back-End Developer
Cope Digital Agency
05.2020 - 12.2020
Back-End Developer
Beat
01.2019 - 04.2020
Software Developer
Freelance
01.2017 - 12.2018
Software Developer
C.A.L.L. Edutainment
01.2016 - 12.2016
Startup Founder
Spark Inspirations
05.2014 - 02.2017
Software Developer
Express Publishing
02.2012 - 12.2014
Software Developer
Metrics Advanced
06.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Heriot-Watt University