Harris Raftopoulos
Staff Writer - Content Creator
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolHarris Raftopoulos is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 15 years in PHP and over a decade of hands-on Laravel expertise, currently writing and creating content for Laravel News while engineering at Ulobby. He builds robust APIs and web platforms using Laravel, Livewire, Inertia, TailwindCSS and Vue, applying test-driven practices and DevOps to keep systems performant and secure. Comfortable translating product needs into scalable technical designs, he delivers projects on time within Agile/Scrum environments and mentors peers through community roles like co-organizing the Laravel Greece Meetup. His background spans remote and on-site roles across startups and agencies, where he led API redesigns and high-availability backend work. Holding a master’s in Advanced Information Systems, he continuously blends practical engineering with technical education and community stewardship. A detail not obvious from titles: he balances deep backend specialization with active content creation that shapes how the Laravel ecosystem learns and adopts best practices.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ERASMUS Intensive Programme on Pervasive Networks and Service Infrastructures, ERASMUS Intensive Programme on Pervasive Networks and Service Infrastructures at Technological Educational Institute of CreteMaster's degree, Advanced Information Systems, Master's degree, Advanced Information Systems at University of PiraeusBachelor of Science (BSc), Informatics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Informatics and Telecommunications at University of Peloponnese
Greek, English, German, Arabic
Github Skills (36)
sublime-text10
sublime10
lucid10
sublime-text-plugin10
jetstream9
architecture9
laravel9
fault8
docker8
xml8
fault-tolerant8
json7
debug7
neo4j7
php7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ulobby/neo4j-php-client
Feb 2021 - Jul 2024
PHP Client for Neo4j with Enterprise Support
Contributions:9 releases, 13 pushes, 43 branches in 3 years 6 months
php-clientboltphpneo4jenterprise
ulobby/rialto
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
Manage Node resources with PHP
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 8 months
phpnodejs
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