Dimitris Krestos
Technical Lead at Skroutz
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolDimitris Krestos is a Technical Lead based in Athens with 14 years of experience building robust web applications, primarily using object-oriented Ruby and PHP and strong client-side skills. He progressed from co-founding a web startup to senior engineering roles and now leads engineering at Skroutz, combining hands-on coding with team and delivery ownership. Dimitris has a proven track record in Ruby on Rails and front-end work—his contributions to a lightweight, mobile-friendly jQuery tabs plugin show attention to usability and pragmatic open-source improvements. Comfortable across the stack, he brings practical architecture sense born from long-term product delivery and early startup exposure. Trained in Computer and Network Technology (MPhil/BSc Hons), he often blends network-aware thinking into web application design.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil, BSc (HONS), Computer and Network Technology, MPhil, BSc (HONS), Computer and Network Technology at Northumbria University
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Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
responsive-design9
ux-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vdw/Tabslet
Nov 2012 - Nov 2016
Yet another jQuery plugin for tabs, lightweight, easy to use, mobile-friendly and with some extra features.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:137 commits, 4 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Dimitris primarily contributed to the front-end development of a jQuery tabs plugin. The user added a demo page with various tab implementations, including default, hover, animation, and rotation functionalities. They updated the demo page by incorporating custom events, added controls, and made the options available through data attributes. They also performed code refactoring and updated the demo page with a logo and Google Analytics.
jqueryjavascriptyet-anotherjquery-pluginmobile-friendly
vdw/MapIt
Dec 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 6 months
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