Konstantinos Pittas
Staff Software Engineer at Clerk.com
Municipality of Patras, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantinos Pittas is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building SaaS products, leading engineering teams, and shipping full-stack solutions from UX to backend services. He has driven operational efficiency and process automation as Head of Engineering and CTO roles, and now focuses on secure, scalable product engineering at Clerk after contributing backend and frontend improvements to the well-known open-source Mattermost project. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he pairs pragmatic system design with a strong test-driven and refactoring mindset, having improved API functionality and web app UX for distributed collaboration software. Based in Patras, Greece, he combines mentoring and team-building strengths with a track record of translating product requirements into production-ready, maintainable systems. An interesting thread across his career is his steady shift from freelance and theme development into leading engineering roles, showing both entrepreneurial initiative and enterprise-grade execution.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Crete
English, Greek
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
typescript10
ui-design10
go-testing10
mattermost10
uid10
go10
api10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
user-interface9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 24 commits, 48 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Konstantinos primarily focused on enhancing the Mattermost backend, implementing new API methods and making related modifications to existing functions. Their contributions include adding functionality for retrieving post information via permalinks and updating existing code for improved performance. They also addressed bugs and refactored code to improve maintainability, as demonstrated in the test suite. These changes involved modifications to several files related to API functionality and core server logic.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
mattermost/mattermost-webapp
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Archived web app of Mattermost. Moved to the monorepo: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 28 commits, 55 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Konstantinos primarily contributed to the Mattermost web application by fixing UI issues and implementing enhancements to existing components. Their work focused on improving user experience, especially for smaller screen sizes, and included modifications to the main menu and user settings access. The user also addressed bugs related to modal behavior, custom statuses, and insights features within the application. Additionally, they improved the display of group members in the autocomplete feature.
webapphttps-servermattermostmattermost-server
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