Summary
Maria Soulountsi is a backend engineer based in Berlin with 9 years of experience building robust payment, billing, and microservice architectures across startups and scale-ups. She brings a strong foundation in mathematical modelling, algorithms and cryptography to pragmatic system design, implementation, testing and documentation. Her recent work at SumUp and Blacklane centers on payments integrations, fraud prevention and resilient service design using Golang, Ruby, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes. Maria has repeatedly driven migrations and event-sourced CQRS microservices, and has hands-on experience with GraphQL, serverless patterns and third-party payment providers like Braintree and CurrencyCloud. Curious by nature, she enjoys untangling complex legacy flows and shipping clean, well-tested services from scratch.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information and communication system engineering, Bachelor's degree, Information and communication system engineering at University of the Aegean