George Papanikolaou
Staff Backend Engineer at Panther
Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolGeorge Papanikolaou is a Staff Backend Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating high-throughput backend systems from Greece. He has driven core backend services and data pipelines at Skroutz and Panther, working across Kafka, MariaDB-to-Elasticsearch replication, MongoDB, Redis and task queues. Known for digging into systems internals, he balances deep technical curiosity with pragmatic engineering to ship resilient, scalable services. His background includes a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Patras and an exchange at KIT, reflecting strong academic grounding. At Panther he progressed from Senior to Staff engineer, signaling both technical leadership and sustained impact on platform architecture. Outside work he continuously explores new technologies and the finer implementation details that improve system reliability and performance.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Student Computer and Information Sciences General, Erasmus Student Computer and Information Sciences General at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Patras
English, Greek, German
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Github Skills (133)
opensearch10
python10
security10
elasticsearch10
cybersecurity10
shell10
cli10
search-engine10
policies10
java10
zsh10
encoder-decoder10
restful10
avro9
ruby-application9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
papanikge/graph-algs
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:72 commits in 5 months
papanikge/data-structures-exp
Apr 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:120 commits in 1 year 1 month
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