Summary
Alex Kantas is a Senior Full Stack Developer and team lead based in Athens with 11 years of experience building web platforms and leading engineering efforts across startups and enterprise projects. He has repeatedly taken full ownership of product architecture and delivery, from founding a Greek startup where he designed and implemented the entire AWS-backed infrastructure to shipping e-commerce and AI-lab systems earlier in his career. Comfortable across the full stack, Alex has experience with Node.js, MongoDB, cloud infrastructure and real-time marketing platforms, and he thrives on mentoring teams to turn prototypes into production services. His background includes roles at fast-moving companies like wappier and FlexCar as well as hands-on product work at Miele and academic AI projects, giving him a blend of startup agility and enterprise discipline. Notably, he has secured and leveraged cloud credits to bootstrap production environments, demonstrating practical resourcefulness in early-stage builds. He combines continuous learning with a track record of delivering scalable, maintainable systems and growing engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Informatics Engineering at Hellenic Mediterranean University