Summary
Giannis Kopanas is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable SaaS and web platforms from Athens, Greece. He currently contributes to the San Francisco–based CoKo Foundation, developing React/Redux components for the open-source Pubsweet publishing framework. His background includes senior web development roles where he delivered production-ready features and maintained complex front-end architectures. Trained in Computer Engineering at the Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, he combines solid engineering fundamentals with practical open-source collaboration. Known for steady long-term contributions to a single open-source project since 2016, he brings both deep front-end expertise and a collaborative mindset to distributed teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate editorial workflows into polished, maintainable UI components that integrate cleanly with backend services.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Technological Education Institute of Piraeus