Summary
Fotis Athineos is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering distributed information systems from architecture through production. Based in Athens, he has led and rebuilt critical backend services—most notably redesigning Translation Memory and global search with event-driven architectures—using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker and AWS. His background spans web and payments platforms where he built fraud-prevention and PCI-compliant payment services, separated monolith features into microservices, and applied ML for ranking problems. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and technical lead, he focuses on reliability, performance and scalable event-driven designs that simplify operations. An early adopter of containerized deployments and service-oriented patterns, he brings practical experience turning complex legacy systems into resilient, observable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Systems, Digital Systems at University of Piraeus
French, Spanish, English