Eleni Lixourioti
Staff Backend Engineer I at Words & Code Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEleni Lixourioti is a Staff Backend Engineer with 18 years of experience building scalable web applications across flights distribution, e-commerce, sports, betting and health domains. She blends hands-on implementation, system design and product ownership, thriving in startups, small studios and large agencies while often wearing multiple hats. Comfortable with Elixir and a long history in Python/Django, she contributes to notable open-source projects like django-oscar where she enhanced backend user and checkout functionality. Eleni places strong emphasis on team efficiency, DevOps and pragmatic workflows, having led platform development and early DevOps practices at fast-growing companies. She has a track record of translating complex business requirements into maintainable systems and building core tooling for extensibility and performance at scale. Based in London, she enjoys stepping outside her comfort zone to learn new languages and toolsets, bringing curiosity to every role.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Web Based Systems, Computing Management, Web Based Systems, Computing Management at University of DerbyLangues Etrangeres Appliquees, Langues Etrangeres Appliquees at Université de Toulon
English, French, Greek, German
Stackoverflow
2,254reputation
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47answers
4questions
django-models
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django
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Github Skills (19)
dashboard10
python10
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
django10
user-management10
testing9
template-engine9
templater9
django-models9
template-tags9
sql8
html6
internet-explorer6
django-templates6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
django-oscar/django-oscar
Jan 2012 - Sep 2012
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eleni primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Django-based e-commerce platform. Their commits reveal the addition of user management features within the dashboard, including user searching, and bulk actions. They also introduced new template tags and views, along with testing components related to order and user management, solidifying their focus on back-end development. They also made adjustments to the checkout process and related templates.
pythondjango-oscarecommercecommercedjango
Geekfish/obsidian-garden
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 237 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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