Grigoris Balaskas
Software Engineer at Blueground
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGrigoris Balaskas is a software engineer with six years of experience building backend and full‑stack systems, currently contributing to product engineering at Blueground in Athens. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA and further studies in Computer Science at KTH, combining strong academic foundations with hands‑on startup and enterprise experience. His background spans Python microservices, Java Spring full‑stack work, .NET/C# backend systems, and modern deployment practices including Docker and Kubernetes. He has shipped features across high‑traffic domains such as sportsbook platforms and real‑estate booking, and has experience integrating external APIs and message systems like RabbitMQ. Beyond product roles, he has supported research microservices for academia and built consumer webapps and AR prototypes, showing a flexible appetite for new domains and technologies. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges research, product, and operations to deliver reliable services.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Major in Information Technology, 7.6/10, Master of Engineering - MEng, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Major in Information Technology, 7.6/10 at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek, German
Github Skills (17)
clustering9
actor8
kotlin8
proto-actor8
distributed-computing8
akka8
pattern7
java7
signature-pad7
protobuf6
golang6
cubing6
distributed-systems6
grpc5
proto5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bluegroundltd/transactional-outbox
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Outbox pattern library implementation
Contributions:12 reviews, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
signature-padcubingoutbox-patternpattern-librarypattern
asynkron/protoactor-dotnet
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 day
protobufgrpcultraprotodistributed-actors
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