Giorgos Tsiftsis
Product Strategist
Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolGiorgos Tsiftsis is a product strategist and seasoned software leader with 14 years of hands-on engineering experience and two decades of Ruby expertise, currently organizing Skroutz’s product and tech expansion across Europe. He progressed from building core search and e-commerce systems to hiring and managing large engineering teams, overseeing product engineering for 50+ people, and launching major initiatives like SkroutzPlus and regional expansions. Comfortable across backend stacks (Javascript, Python, Clojure, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), he blends deep technical craft with product strategy and operational scaling. A thoughtful problem solver with interests in music, poetry, and philosophy, he brings a human-centered perspective to complex technical and organizational challenges.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Piraeus, Department of InformaticsMaster's degree, Philosophy, Master's degree, Philosophy at Elliniko Anoikto PanepistimioDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, French
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Github Skills (64)
test-coverage10
coverage10
magit10
stemming9
emacs-lisp9
elasticsearch-plugin9
emacs9
elasticsearch-client9
mongodb-driver9
code-coverage9
object-mapper8
lucene8
ruby-on-rails8
mongodb8
mongoid8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skroutz/string_metric
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:85 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
string
skroutz/turkish_stemmer
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:105 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
stemming
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