Giorgos Spanos
CTO at Makeasite
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGiorgos Spanos is a security-focused CTO and founder with 11 years of experience building high-availability, cost-efficient platforms that scale to hundreds of thousands of monthly users. He scaled Vimodji from concept to 750k+ MAU and 35 servers while driving a monolith→microservices evolution, cutting costs through careful infra right-sizing and custom caching/search solutions. A hands-on engineer with embedded-systems roots, he has contributed platform-specific support to the RF24Network project and researched RF24L01 security during his MSc, blending wireless security research with practical IoT work. He also runs a profitable web and hosting agency, mentoring engineers and instituting CI/CD, security reviews and runbooks that resolved incidents rapidly. Based in Athens, he combines entrepreneurial grit, low-level systems expertise and pragmatic architecture choices to deliver resilient, secure production systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, graduated with 7.64 out of 10, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, graduated with 7.64 out of 10 at Technologiko Ekpaideutiko Idrima, Athinashigh school degree, Highschool, 15.12, high school degree, Highschool, 15.12 at arsakeio psixikouSecurity in digistal systems, security and privacy, Graduated with grade 8.94 out of 10., Security in digistal systems, security and privacy, Graduated with grade 8.94 out of 10. at University of Piraeus
Greek, English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
rft10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
n10
arduino10
arduino-library10
abstraction-layer9
spi9
abstraction9
serial-communication9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nRF24/RF24Network
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
OSI Layer 3 Networking for nRF24L01(+) and nRF52x on Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Giorgos's commits primarily focus on adding support for the Intel Galileo platform to the RF24Network library. This involves modifying the code to accommodate the Galileo's specific hardware and software configurations, likely including adapting SPI communication and integrating with the Arduino environment on this platform. The changes address issues related to sleep mode and other platform-specific functionalities, demonstrating an understanding of embedded systems and their integration. These changes appear to extend the compatibility of the library.
raspberry-pinrf52840raspberryarduino-libraryc-plus-plus
spaniakos/Cryptosuite
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 3 months
rpicryptographicshaarduinohmac
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