Nikolas Vourlakis
Technical Lead at Skroutz
Greece
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Top SchoolNikolas Vourlakis is a Technical Lead with 14 years of hands-on experience delivering backend and product-focused systems across startups and scale-ups in Greece. He combines deep software architecture and agile delivery expertise with a practical bias for shipping high-impact applications, having progressed from developer roles to staff and technical lead positions at Skroutz and Fairlo. Known for balancing engineering quality with business priorities, he has led cross-functional teams through complex projects in financial services and conversational intelligence. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a leader, he drives technical decisions while mentoring engineers and improving delivery practices. Based in Greece and educated in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, he brings steady execution and a systems-oriented perspective to product challenges. A detail that surprises colleagues: he has repeatedly transitioned between hands-on implementation and strategic leadership roles, demonstrating appetite for both coding deep technical solutions and scaling engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma - 5 years Electronic and Computer Engineering, Diploma - 5 years Electronic and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete
French, English
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
utilities10
classes10
modularity10
requirejs10
data-exchange10
enums10
dependency-free10
lodash10
javascript-tools9
es6-modules9
commonjs8
typescript8
json-template7
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Archimidis/pgrid
Dec 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:94 commits in 1 year 2 months
Archimidis/dotfiles
Oct 2013 - May 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 20 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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