Summary
Nikiforos A is a Java back-end developer with over 7 years of hands-on experience building microservices and scalable APIs across international teams and industries. He specializes in Java 8–17, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and a mix of SQL and NoSQL datastores (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch). Comfortable in cloud-native environments, he has deployed systems using AWS (S3, SQS), GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform. His recent work spans music-tech and enterprise domains, combining production-grade microservices with event-driven integrations and observability. Trained in multicultural engineering programs and with Erasmus study experience, he brings strong collaboration and cross-border team skills often under tight delivery cycles. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design that balances performance, maintainability and clear API contracts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Department of Engineering Informatics, 7.5/10, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Department of Engineering Informatics, 7.5/10 at Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia
Erasmus+ Scholarship, Computer Engineering, Erasmus+ Scholarship, Computer Engineering at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Greek, English