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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, Scotland

Skills

Programming Languages: Go, Python, PHP, Java Enterprise, C, C#, JS, NodeJs

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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

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