Nickolas Benakis
Senior Frontend Engineer at Workable
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolNickolas Benakis is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Athens with eight years of experience building production-grade web applications using modern JavaScript (ES6+), React and Angular. He holds an MSc in Advanced Computing Systems and AI and combines strong UI craftsmanship—mobile-first, accessible, semantic—with practical experience creating design systems, micro-frontends and private UI libraries for digital banking and enterprise products. At Workable he focuses on shipping polished, reusable frontend components; earlier roles at Advantage FSE and EY sharpened his skills in theming, state management (ngRx/RxJS) and full-stack integrations. Recently he’s embraced GraphQL and PWAs/service workers, reflecting a curiosity for progressive web capabilities beyond standard SPA work. Outside of engineering he’s a startup-minded builder (ex-Uizard/Workable footprints noted on his GitHub bio) who unwinds with podcasts, surfing and backpacking—indicating a balance of product-focused discipline and hands-on creativity.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Front End Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampMaster of Science - MSc, Advanced Computing Systems - Software Development and Αrtificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Computing Systems - Software Development and Αrtificial Intelligence at University of PiraeusBachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Honours(2:1) TOP 5% of graduating class, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Honours(2:1) TOP 5% of graduating class at University of West Attica
French, Greek, English
Github Skills (85)
monitoring10
bootstrap-theme10
developer-tools10
lighthouse10
audit10
auditing10
performance-analysis10
javascript9
lit9
icon-pack9
private-repository9
uikit9
bootstrap9
ionicons9
canvas9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NickolasBenakis/popcorn
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Online Cinema Booking Built with React & Hooks
Contributions:142 commits, 1 PR, 156 pushes in 11 months
social-loginhocsbuilt-with-reactcinema-bookingjest
NickolasBenakis/cloudflare-images-client
Apr 2024 - May 2024
A complete wrapper around cloudflare images api
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 6 PRs in 1 month
apicloudflare
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