Karolosย Ktenas
Technical Support Engineer at Environmental Protection Engineering S.A.
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolKarolos Ktenas is a technical support engineer with 10 years of experience bridging product management, customer success, and operations across maritime and industrial sectors. He combines hands-on technical problem solving with strong communication and cross-functional coordination, having supported product lifecycles and field service operations at companies like LALIZAS and Environmental Protection Engineering. Karolos has also driven product initiatives and branch operations at Prime Products and supervised customer care and R&D earlier in his career, giving him a rare mix of technical, operational, and managerial perspectives. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he enhanced a popular Go console-output library (pterm) with improved error handling, table features, and CI/CD improvements, showing comfort across frontend/back-end and developer tooling. Based in Greece with a B.Sc. in Material Science, he is open to roles in product, support, customer success, or operations and brings a pragmatic, team-focused approach and a good sense of humor to collaborative challenges.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. in Material Science, B.Sc. in Material Science at University of Patras
Github Skills (8)
golang10
terminal-emulator10
go10
terminal-application10
go-language10
console10
cicd8
animation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pterm/pterm
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
โจ #PTerm is a modern Go module to easily beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, text input, select menus and much more ๐ It's completely configurable and 100% cross-platform compatible.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Karolos primarily contributed to enhancing the console output beautification library. Their work included adding a `PrintOnErrorf` function to multiple printer types, which improves error handling and simplifies debugging. Significant changes were made to the table printer, introducing features like header row separators and row separators. Additional contributions included improvements to the CI/CD pipeline and generating example animations, demonstrating involvement in both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
console-frameworkgopretty-printansi-colorsprogressbar
KarolosLykos/hackertea
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
#Hackertea is a sleek terminal user interface written in Golang, designed to bring HackerNews articles directly to your fingertips. Powered by the magic of Golang and the #bubbletea library. Just fire up your terminal, launch Hackertea, and dive into the latest HackerNews stories with ease. Happy hacking! ๐
Contributions:5 releases, 60 reviews, 60 PRs in 1 year 7 months
bubblebubbleteaclielm-architecturego
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