Apostolos Bessas
Staff Backend Engineer at Close
Patras, Western Greece, Greece
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Top SchoolApostolos Bessas is a Staff Backend Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, high-performance web applications with a strong focus on code quality, testing, and automation. He has progressed from systems administration and R&D into leadership roles—Head of Engineering and Principal Engineer—helping teams adopt agile and lean practices to become autonomous value-delivering units. His background spans both operations and software architecture, giving him a practical bias for making systems “just work” in production. Apostolos excels at optimizing delivery pipelines and developer workflows, reducing friction between product intent and reliable execution. Based in Patras, Greece, he combines deep technical grounding from academic research and enterprise systems with a track record of leading engineering orgs through growth and complexity.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science and Technology, Master Computer Science and Technology at University of Patras
English, German, French
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Github Skills (84)
mongoengine10
flask-sqlalchemy10
figure10
flask-mongoengine9
sqlalchemy9
api-framework9
cli8
agile8
api8
localization8
ansible8
phone-number8
command-line-tool8
ssh8
flask8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mpessas/django
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 10 months
frameworkdeadlinesweb-framework
mpessas/django-pg-extensions
Nov 2013 - Jan 2016
Postgresql extensions for Django.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
djangopostgresqlextensionspython
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