Summary
Apostolos Samaras is a Principal Software Engineer and Architect with eight years of professional experience shaping Java-centric enterprise systems across telecom, finance and defense sectors. He combines hands-on development with technical leadership, having progressed from junior developer roles to managing teams and CI/CD practices while designing complex SOA and multi-tier JEE applications. Skilled across Java 7/8+, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, OSGi, Hibernate and cloud-friendly CI tooling (Jenkins, SonarQube), he bridges legacy middleware and modern microservice patterns. At European Dynamics he led POCs and delivery for mission-critical projects, and now drives architecture and product engineering at Helvia.ai. Based in Athens, he brings an electrical and computer engineering foundation to practical system design and has a track record of reducing delivery friction through automation and modular platform work. Colleagues appreciate his pragmatic approach to translating ambiguous requirements into maintainable, testable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ethniko Metsovio Polytechnico
English, German, Greek