Georgios Valkanos
Software Engineer at Alpaca
Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorgios Valkanos is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in backend systems, data engineering, and high-frequency trading platforms, currently contributing at Alpaca. He combines a strong engineering foundation from the National Technical University of Athens with hands-on proficiency in Python, NodeJS, Go, and Rust to deliver performant, resilient systems in fintech and blockchain contexts. His work ranges from designing microservices and event pipelines to deploying smart contracts on Ethereum Mainnet and integrating LLMs to enhance product functionality. At BP and Tradias he drove measurable improvements in data processing speed, system reliability, and transactional efficiency through innovative transformation techniques and rigorous testing. A seasoned mentor and former founding engineer, he bridges early-stage architecture decisions to production deployments while aligning engineering efforts with product roadmaps. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who repeatedly turns complex financial and blockchain requirements into reliable, shipping systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at National Technical University of AthensProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kameranis/Distributed-Hash-Table
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:18 commits in 9 days
geValkanos/solidity-examples
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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