Summary
Dimitris Messinis is an engineering manager based in Occitania, France with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and cloud-native systems. He moved from hands-on roles—DevOps, backend, frontend and IT engineering—into leadership after founding a one-person development studio that supported startups and EU-funded projects. At Strapi he progressed from senior backend engineer to engineering manager, bringing practical experience in microservice migrations, Kubernetes/GCP optimization, and CI/CD automation. His background includes leading front-end teams on GIS and Horizon2020 projects and rescuing late-stage products into production-ready MVPs. Comfortable in both startup scrappiness and corporate operations across EMEA, he pairs technical depth with people-first team building and stakeholder diplomacy. A practical problem-solver, he’s as likely to debug a cluster issue as to craft a pragmatic delivery plan.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Greek, French