George Tourkas
Lead Software Engineer at Cambrian Technologies
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolGeorge Tourkas is a Lead Software Engineer based in Athens with nine years of formal experience and two decades of hands-on systems work, specializing in designing, building and operating data-intensive, event-driven architectures. He has led and scaled cross-functional teams, introduced test-first incremental delivery and orchestrated minimal-downtime cloud migrations across AWS and GCP while co-developing serverless data warehousing and open-standards data APIs. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and technical coach, he routinely shapes architecture, CI/CD and operational practices and still contributes code—recently adding WeChat notification support to a popular Go notifications library. His background blends academic rigor (MSc Advanced Computer Science, University of Manchester) with practical low-latency event-stream engineering and a track record of turning legacy systems into loosely coupled, maintainable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Degree of, Informatics, Degree of, Informatics at Athens University of Economics and BusinessMSc, Advanced Computer Science, MSc, Advanced Computer Science at The University of Manchester
English, Greek, German
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Github Skills (20)
testing10
wechat10
go10
api-design9
apim9
golang9
api9
notification9
googlebot8
bots8
messaging8
logging6
domain-driven-design6
database6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nikoksr/notify
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the implementation of WeChat notification service functionality. They added support for WeChat integration, including configuration and message sending. The commits demonstrate the creation of a `wechatMessageManager` interface and its mock implementation for testing, as well as the core logic for sending messages to WeChat users. The user also improved code style and structure within the service.
whatsappdiscordbotsending-notificationswechat
gtourkas/thumbnailr-go
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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