Makis Antypas
Co-founder & SVP Technology at Viva.com
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolMakis Antypas is a seasoned FinTech founder and technology executive with 13+ years building large-scale transactional systems across banking, retail, ticketing and e-commerce. As co-founder and SVP Technology of Viva and former CEO of Viva Bank, he led the design and delivery of a cloud-native, Azure-based European PSP that holds banking and e-money licenses and direct principal membership with major card schemes. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots with strategic product leadership, scaling infrastructure and payments connectivity across 23 European markets. Makis is fluent in turning complex regulatory and integration challenges into reliable, auditable platforms that support issuing, acquiring and local IBAN services. His background in manufacturing engineering and an MSc in Information Systems inform a practical, systems-oriented approach to operational resilience. Less obvious: he has shepherded Viva from startup architecture to a full principal member PSP, a rare trajectory that blends startup agility with bank-grade controls.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Systems, MSc Information Systems at The University of SheffieldBachelor's degree Manufacturing Engineering, Bachelor's degree Manufacturing Engineering at University of Piraeus
English, French, Greek
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Github Skills (7)
mercadopago10
plugin10
corruption9
wallet9
bitcoin8
cryptocurrency8
blockchain8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
teleiakaipavla/diafthoratelos.gr
Jul 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:66 commits in 7 months
combatgreececorruptionaims
VivaPayments/API
Dec 2012 - Sep 2014
Index of Viva Wallet open source projects on GitHub.
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 9 months
vivaindexblockchainmercadopagowallet
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