Demetris Manikas
Senior Developer at ΕΔΥΤΕ
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolDemetris Manikas is a Senior Developer based in Greece with 11 years of professional experience building reliable, full-stack applications and infrastructure. He has shipped end-to-end systems—from databases and server-side APIs to responsive clients and automated tests—working with technologies like Python, C#, Java, PHP, MySQL/Postgres, Docker, and modern JavaScript frameworks. As sole developer of Royalties Express he designed the data model, backend, client UI, reporting and CI infrastructure, and at Exodus built performance-focused distributed solutions and a name-matching library for AML processing. He contributes to notable open-source tooling such as electron-builder, improving Windows installer behavior and test coverage, showing a knack for practical cross-platform packaging problems. Trained in physics and astrophysics, he brings analytical rigor and patience to complex engineering challenges and a track record of turning legacy systems into maintainable, production-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Msc, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonPhysics, Physics, Physics, Physics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Spanish, Greek
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
electron10
builder-pattern10
windows-installer10
builders10
builder-io10
testing9
typescript9
packaging9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
autoupdate8
appx7
deb7
linux7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
electron-userland/electron-builder
Nov 2015 - May 2016
A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 85 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Demetris contributed to the Electron-builder project by enhancing the Windows installer functionality. They added support for displaying uninstallation information, including publisher and estimated size. Additionally, the user implemented changes to accept multiple default application directories and made updates to the application package checking process. Furthermore, they contributed to test suite additions.
msirpmsnapcraftauto-updateelectron-updater
demetris-manikas/dbos-transact
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
The Transactional TypeScript Framework
Contributions:1 PR, 130 pushes, 21 branches in 9 months
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