Summary
Christos Panagiotakopoulos is an engineering manager based in Paris with 11 years of experience building backend systems that reliably serve millions of users. He progressed from founding engineer roles to senior platform and lead engineering positions at fast-moving startups, and now leads engineering at Prelude. Known for designing efficient, scalable services, he blends hands-on system design with people management to keep complex platforms running smoothly at scale. His background includes driving platform resilience at BeReal and end-to-end delivery at smaller startups, giving him both product empathy and deep operational instincts. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer at NTUA, he brings a strong technical foundation and a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to engineering leadership. Colleagues value him for turning ambiguous requirements into robust, production-ready systems while mentoring teams to own reliability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek, French