Summary
Nikolas Branis is a seasoned Back End Developer based in Athens with 11 years of experience building and securing high-traffic web applications and e-commerce platforms. He combines deep PHP expertise (OpenCart, WordPress, Magento, Drupal) with systems and database administration across Linux and Windows stacks, having overseen maintenance of 10+ servers, 10+ databases and 50+ web applications. His background spans full lifecycle delivery—from architecting and tuning Apache/PHP/MySQL performance to secure coding, penetration testing and remediation. Past roles include IT Manager and Senior Software Engineer where he led Magento e‑shop launches and live streaming/IPTV integrations, showing comfort with both consumer-facing products and infrastructure. A practical social media and SEO practitioner, he also brings an unusual mix of hands-on security operations and front-end skills (HTML5, JS, XSLT) that make him effective at closing gaps between development, deployment and monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
English, Greek