Summary
George Papaioannou is a veteran software engineer and frontend React developer with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, desktop multimedia, and modern web stacks. Currently leading small teams and contributing full-stack work for Greece’s Ministry of Education, he helped scale a Forms platform to serve 1.5M users and boosted team productivity by 25% through data-driven process improvements. Comfortable from assembly and microcontrollers to Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB and React, he pairs deep low-level knowledge with pragmatic cloud-native engineering. A former co-founder of Paradox Interactive Multimedia, he blends entrepreneurial product instincts with academic rigor (PhD work on video encoding optimization) to solve performance and scalability challenges. Based in Larissa, he brands himself an "Old School Programmer" whose long arc of languages and platforms gives him rare cross-domain fluency and a knack for reviving legacy systems into modern services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science in «Information and Communication Technologies in Education», MSc, Computer Science in «Information and Communication Technologies in Education» at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Ph.D. «video coding optimization techniques using multi CPUs/GPUs for the encoding scheme», Computer Science, Ph.D. «video coding optimization techniques using multi CPUs/GPUs for the encoding scheme», Computer Science at University of Thessaly, Lamia
BSc, in Automation Engineering, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, BSc, in Automation Engineering, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki