Niko Tzikas
Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiko Tzikas is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, currently developing insurance platforms at Liberty Mutual from his base in Miami Beach. He blends hands-on engineering with teaching—having instructed React, Node, Express and MongoDB at Ironhack and mentored career changers at Thinkful—so he’s equally comfortable shipping code and explaining complex concepts. His background spans startups and production film sets, giving him a rare mix of product-focused engineering and creative problem-solving informed by early VFX and art-department roles. Open-source contributions include front-end work that applies modern JavaScript patterns like Promises, and he’s repeatedly demonstrated the ability to lead small teams and deliver polished UI/UX under tight timelines.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Web Development, Certification, Web Development at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Film, Bachelor’s Degree, Film at Syracuse UniversityCertification, Web Design, Certification, Web Design at University of Miami
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
es6-promise9
asynchronous-javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ironhack-labs/lab-es6-promises
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
Contributions summary:Niko primarily focused on building the front-end components of a web application. They implemented features using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, as demonstrated by modifications to `index.html`, `script.js`, and `style.css`. The commits show a progression from basic HTML structure to incorporating asynchronous JavaScript, Promises, and the integration of styling, showcasing an understanding of front-end development principles.
Tzikas/IronPlate
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:94 commits, 4 PRs, 72 pushes in 7 months
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