Mike Apostolakis
Co-Founder at Essential Developer
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Apostolakis is an iOS-focused founder and engineer with 12 years of experience helping teams and companies build durable, well-architected mobile systems through Essential Developer. He combines hands-on app architecture, testing and delivery expertise from roles at viagogo, Sky and as an independent contractor with product-minded leadership from founding WallTrade.gr. Based in Greece, he emphasizes practical techniques that scale across teams and codebases, turning complex requirements into maintainable implementations. Notably, his work centers on teaching and codifying best practices for iOS development—making him as much an educator and coach as a builder.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at American College of Greece
Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
ios10
architectural-patterns10
architecture10
testing10
memory-management10
youtube10
xctest10
clean-architecture10
xcode10
tdd10
solid-principles10
modular-design10
swift10
refactoring10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
essentialdevelopercom/ios-lead-essentials-feed-api-challenge
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
https://iOSLeadEssentials.com
Contributions:297 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
swiftios
mapostolakis/Countries
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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