Nick Polyderopoulos
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolNick Polyderopoulos is a pragmatic Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, compliant backend systems, now building at Microsoft from Dublin. He has a proven track record architecting fault-tolerant platforms—driving a hybrid in-memory/Redis cache that achieved 10x faster responses and leading QES integrations that reduced regulatory cycles from a month to days. Equally comfortable in hands-on coding and technical leadership, Nick has scaled engineering teams, modernized CI/CD-driven async workers to boost throughput by 150%, and championed observability through structured logging. He blends deep systems curiosity (including building servers and state-machine engines) with a mentorship-first approach that elevates team capability and delivery. Notably, he pairs research-driven problem solving with practical, award-winning implementations that balance performance, cost, and compliance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School System SupportSoftware and Network, High School System SupportSoftware and Network at 4ο Technical School of LarissaBachelor's degree Computer Science And Telecommunication - Computer Engineer, Bachelor's degree Computer Science And Telecommunication - Computer Engineer at Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly. / TEI of Thessaly
English, Greek
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Github Skills (69)
physx10
windows-explorer10
visual-studio10
cpp10
spartan10
dotnet10
imgui10
path-tracing10
sdk10
ssao10
cli10
git10
vulkan10
raytracing10
simulation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NickPolyder/gitextensions
Feb 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsvisual-studio-2010standalone
NickPolyder/Playground
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
The repo serves as a place of research and testing.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 6 years 10 months
testingaspcsharpdotnetcoreplayground
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