Markos Volikas
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolMarkos Volikas is a software engineer based in Athens with three years of hands-on experience building search and data-driven systems. He currently develops search engine technology at Contexity and contributes as a StormCrawler committer and PMC member at The Apache Software Foundation, blending product-focused engineering with open-source stewardship. His background includes commercial engineering work at Benefit Software and a stint as an informatics teacher, reflecting both practical delivery and an ability to explain technical concepts clearly. A high-achieving graduate in Informatics from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (9.2/10), he brings strong academic foundations to real-world engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves quickly from prototyping to production in search-related domains.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 9.2/10, Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 9.2/10 at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
English
Github Skills (9)
crawler10
storm10
stormcrawler10
warc10
apache-storm10
web-crawler10
java10
apache9
scalable9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mvolikas/incubator-stormcrawler
May 2024 - Mar 2025
A scalable, mature and versatile web crawler based on Apache Storm
Contributions:49 pushes, 18 branches in 10 months
mvolikas/mvolikas.github.io
May 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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