Nicos Panayides
Development Team Lead at Qobo Group - Developers of Qobrix
Nicosia, Lefkoşa District, Cyprus
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Top SchoolNicos Panayides is a Development Team Lead with 8 years of professional experience building resilient back-end systems for online gaming and financial services from Nicosia, Cyprus. He combines deep Java and Spring Boot expertise with hands-on PHP, C, and Linux experience to design and operate microservice-based trading and pricing platforms integrated with messaging systems like RabbitMQ and NATS. As a former CTO and lead developer, he has end-to-end ownership across architecture, compliance, performance tuning and deployment automation in high-throughput environments. Nicos also contributes to notable open-source projects such as CakePHP, where he optimized Redis caching behavior and hardened related tests—demonstrating attention to both performance and correctness. His background includes building Bitcoin wallet servers and a portable 2D game engine, reflecting a comfort with low-level systems as well as distributed services. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and brings a pragmatic, audit-minded approach to shipping reliable production systems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (15)
testing10
caching10
php10
redis10
mvc-framework9
psr-78
orm7
docker6
validation6
validations6
webpages6
python6
pickle6
web-content6
tapestry6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicos primarily focused on enhancing the caching mechanism within the Redis engine. They introduced the `scan_count` option to optimize cache clearing performance and fixed related test cases. Further contributions include refactoring and adjusting default values, then renaming a configuration option. Additionally, the user implemented exception handling and added a test case.
cakephpphpmvc-frameworkpsr-7orm
QoboLtd/cakephp
Dec 2024 - Apr 2026
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Contributions:1 PR, 69 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 4 months
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