Antonis Kalou
Senior Software Engineer at Shadowcat Systems Limited
Cyprus
Summary
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SeniorAntonis Kalou is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and a strong background across paradigms—from C++ game engines to functional backends in Elixir and Clojure. He has delivered production services in domains including federated social platforms, secure email infrastructure, and high-throughput data processing, often owning both architecture and DevOps for Kubernetes-based deployments. Antonis favors simple, maintainable code and has a pragmatic focus on refactoring and reliability (evident from contributions improving Linux speech recognition code structure). Comfortable across languages like Scala, Elixir, Clojure, Python and C++, he combines low-level systems instincts with modern functional design. Based in Cyprus, he’s an active open-source contributor (github: kalouantonis / antoniskalou) who enjoys exploring new languages and pushing systems toward better maintainability and safety.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Greek, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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2questions
Github Skills (15)
c1710
linux10
speech-recognition10
refactoring10
c1110
code-organization9
lua6
clojure6
webpy6
nodejs6
javascript6
electron6
python6
emacs6
clojurescript6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JamezQ/Palaver
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Linux Speech Recognition
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Antonis primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the Linux Speech Recognition project. Their work included splitting a large source file into separate files for better organization and maintainability, addressing compiler warnings, and correcting syntax issues. Furthermore, the user added an exit function in the `parse_args` function to handle memory errors, and moved some code blocks for better code readability.
linuxspeech-recognition
channel-music/server
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:26 PRs, 132 pushes, 34 branches in 10 months
streaming-applicationhostedstreamingmusic-streamingmusic
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