Summary
Dimitra Paraskevopoulou is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing APIs across industries from automotive services to observability and sports data. She has a strong foundation in algorithms and Python, and a track record of modernizing legacy stacksโmost notably leading a full rewrite and Python2โPython3 migration that reduced codebase size by 75% and improved performance. Her work spans API design (OpenAPI), security-by-design (OAuth2, JWT), data platforms (MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch) and polyglot services (Go, Python), reflecting a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. Dimitra has repeatedly translated business product vision into robust technical requirements and production services, including ETL APIs, billing integrations and real-time monitoring tools. Based in Greece, she brings research-era rigor from earlier network anomaly and simulation work into practical engineering choices for reliability and observability. Colleagues value her ability to tackle technical debt while shipping customer-facing features and documentation that smooth integration.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Diploma, Computer Engineering and Informatics at University of Patras
English, German, Greek