Markos Gogoulos
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at Six Feet Up, Inc.
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolMarkos Gogoulos is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 16 years of experience building scalable web applications, open source platforms, and cloud-native services from Athens, Greece. He co-created MediaCMS, a widely used open source video and media CMS, and contributes across front-end and back-end stacks (Python/Django, React) while mentoring others in GSoC and within corporate backend chapters. His career spans founding startups (Mist.io, Wordgames.gr, Unweb.me), leading payments and microservice integrations for enterprise clients, and designing CI/CD and serverless pipelines for mission-critical systems. A Free Software enthusiast with a background in NLP and security, he blends practical engineering, devops, and research-driven features—recent work includes advanced payment integrations using gRPC and GraphQL. Outside work he’s a long-distance hiker and runner, reflecting a methodical, endurance-minded approach to problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Diploma in Engineering, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at University of the Aegean
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Github Skills (17)
cms10
python10
django9
rest-api9
react8
360-video8
javascript8
css7
open-source7
django-templates6
django-forms6
geodjango6
autocomplete6
gunicorn6
jquery6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mediacms-io/mediacms
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 35 reviews, 76 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Markos contributed to both the front-end and back-end of the MediaCMS project, fixing bugs related to the search field and media comments form, while also making minor improvements. They updated the material icons version and added a demo link, along with setting a setting variable to false. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to remove redundant usage of the FRONTEND_HOST variable and added new URLs. Their contributions spanned UI, settings modifications, and API endpoint additions.
cmsdjangopythonreactrest
plumi/plumi.content
Oct 2015 - Jul 2018
plumi content types
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
content-type
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