Giorgos Karanikas
Backend Team Leader at Generali Hellas
Lamia, Thessaly and Central Greece
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Top SchoolGiorgos Karanikas is a pragmatic backend team leader and full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and microservices architectures across Europe. He combines hands-on Java/Spring and front-end expertise (React/Angular) with strong DevOps and CI/CD practices, having modernized legacy systems, introduced Gradle and Sentry, and led Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments. Giorgos has a track record of growing teams, establishing developer workflows and local tooling (Tilt), and improving user conversion and issue resolution rates through pragmatic engineering and UX collaboration. Comfortable in customer-facing roles, he has participated in technical offers and security/integration discussions for EU projects while mentoring engineers and documenting company-wide best practices. Based in Lamia, Greece, he holds an MSc in Internet Technologies with Security and is known for turning operational pain points into repeatable, team-friendly solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Technological Education Institute of ThessalonikiMSc Internet Technologies with Security, MSc Internet Technologies with Security at University of Bristol
English, Greek
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Github Skills (180)
javascript-client10
modals10
data-loading10
sortable10
javascript10
enums10
dependency-free10
sdk10
datepicker10
daterangepicker10
fetch10
utilities10
classes10
requirejs10
typeahead10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gkaran/coffee-tracker
May 2018 - Jun 2019
A simple coffee tracker with angular and firebase
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year
trackerfirestorecoffeefirebaseangular
gkaran/react-bootstrap-tabular
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
reactjsreactbootstrap
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