Summary
Christos Liontos is a seasoned full-stack software engineer based in Aberdeen with a decade of experience building event-driven, Python-first systems for real-time content and data ingestion. He has delivered large-scale backend solutions and APIs across sports betting platforms, specialising in message brokers, state management and near real-time pipelines while also leading test automation and performance efforts. Comfortable across the stack, he has a track record of refactoring for scalability, integrating streaming providers, and mentoring junior engineers. Christos combines an academic grounding in mathematics and software technology with hands-on consultancy and product delivery, and he maintains a curiosity for new tools that he explores on his blog ponderinglion.dev. A self-described "Python addict" with a soft spot for JavaScript, he brings both rigor from financial and betting systems and a practical commitment to developer experience and documentation.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Software Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Software Technology at Robert Gordon University
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Statistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Greek