Makis Otman
Senior Software Engineer at Sona (getsona.com)
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolMakis Otman is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building pragmatic, production-ready systems across startups and consultancies. He currently contributes to product engineering at Sona while running his own consultancy, Modest Owl LTD, blending individual contributor work with entrepreneurial leadership. His background includes leading engineering teams, shaping microservice architectures, and designing serverless data pipelines using AWS services. Makis has a strong mentoring streak—he created tailored apprenticeship paths and coached junior engineers through One World Coders and 8th Light’s programs. Originally trained outside tech, his transition from hospitality to software underscores a practical, user-focused approach to problem solving. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he’s comfortable across a broad stack (Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, Elixir, Python) and favors pragmatic solutions that balance delivery speed with maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Hotel and Tourism Management, Diploma, Hotel and Tourism Management at Intercollege
Github Skills (44)
elixir10
functional-programming10
scalable10
cert9
programming-language9
line-app9
shiny9
graph9
refactoring9
compiler9
version-control8
erlang8
aws8
security8
terraform8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Maikon/resources
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 1 month
interestjavadata-structuresprogramming-conceptsimportant
Maikon/side_project_generator
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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