Lazarus Lazaridis
Principal Engineer at Open Source
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolLazarus Lazaridis is a Principal Engineer based in Athens with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails, and fluency in Java, Go, Bash, and C#. He progressed from hands-on roles to technical leadership at Skroutz, after shaping teams and shipping features at e-Travel, Persado, and national research services. An active open-source maintainer, he created DuckRails — a pragmatic API-mocking tool — and publishes tutorials and developer utilities on his blog, showing a passion for developer experience and tooling. Known for pragmatic refactors, performance optimizations and mentoring, he combines deep Rails craftsmanship with a taste for small, productive infrastructure pieces that speed team delivery.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business
Greek, English
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Github Skills (20)
apidoc10
rails10
ruby10
api10
mocking10
ruby-on-rails10
http-header9
rspec9
http9
web-development9
front-end-development8
javascript8
css7
html7
activerecord6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
iridakos/duckrails
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
Development tool to mock API endpoints quickly and easily (docker image available)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 273 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lazarus contributed to the development of the DuckRails project, a tool for mocking API endpoints. Their work included refactoring the form layout, adding headers functionality, implementing route validation, and integrating pagination. They also worked on adding JavaScript script functionality and other minor UI updates.
docker-imageendpointsdeveloper-toolsmockingmock
iridakos/elastic_rails_tutorial
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
The application from the elastic search tutorial
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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