Aris Kostakos
Technical Lead at Rappid Studios
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolAris Kostakos is a Technical Lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable back-end systems, game engines, and high-performance algorithms across startups and product teams. He has driven production improvements—tripling output at Express Publishing and streamlining pipelines at Rappid Studios—while leading development on mobile games with over 10 million users. Comfortable in C++, Go and distributed systems, he has implemented research-driven solutions such as a CFR-based detector for malicious web requests and migrated large-scale services to microservices and modern search stacks. A founder-turned-engineer, he combines product intuition with deep technical craft—having authored a cross-platform ECS game engine and browser-based editor—and often surfaces creative, data-driven optimizations (e.g., reducing API costs and search downtime) that materially cut operating expense. Based in Greece, he blends entrepreneurial grit with proven leadership in demanding production environments.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Github Skills (15)
docker8
golang8
harvest6
go6
container6
ecosystem6
flash3
subscriber3
assemble2
game-development2
android2
ios2
configuration-management2
moby1
openfl1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ArisKostakos/Spark-Editor-Server
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:748 pushes in 1 year 9 months
chatpomelo
ArisKostakos/sparkEngine
Oct 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:130 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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