George Pantazes
Senior Release Engineer at SimplePractice
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Pantazes is a Senior Release Engineer with 11 years of experience blending quality assurance, automated testing, and increasingly hands-on devops and full-stack development. He currently manages release coordination and risk mitigation across multiple applications at SimplePractice, after improving CI/CD pipelines and release reliability for internal tooling at Disney Streaming Services. His background includes building test orchestration web services with React, TypeScript, Java/Spring Boot, Docker and Kubernetes, and authoring extensive automation suites using Selenium, JUnit/TestNG, Gradle/Maven. George pairs pragmatic process improvements—standardized test reporting, CI best practices, and release playbooks—with mentorship of junior engineers and SDETs. Based in Champaign, IL, he brings a rare combination of release management discipline and developer craftsmanship, having also shipped cross-platform mobile apps and led documentation and tooling efforts. He’s the kind of engineer who closes hundreds of issues while also designing the systems that prevent them.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (169)
python10
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ruby10
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chat10
automation10
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appium10
automation-framework10
collaboration10
javascript10
webdriver10
ecosystem10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gwpantazes/gwpantazes.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jun 2021
gwpantazes Github Pages
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 10 months
gwpantazes/SpiritOfTheForestGame
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches, 1 issue in 11 months
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