Nikos Douvlis
Staff Software Engineer at Clerk.com
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolNikos Douvlis is a Staff Software Engineer based in Athens with eight years of experience building reliable web and authentication systems. Currently at Clerk, he contributes to the core backend of their JavaScript authentication stack, including user creation, session handling, and package release workflows. His career spans startups and product teams—from freelance web development to roles at Covve and Drivepoint—demonstrating versatility across backend services, builds, and release management. He has a strong academic foundation in Informatics and early mentoring experience as a teaching assistant, which he leverages when collaborating and coaching peers. Notably, his open-source contributions to the official clerk/javascript repo show practical ownership of auth flows and publishing pipelines that power developer-facing infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics and Telecommunications at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
Greek, English
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
clerk/javascript
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Official JavaScript repository for Clerk authentication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2105 reviews, 1584 commits, 1857 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nikos primarily contributed to the backend core of the Clerk authentication system, as demonstrated by their work on users.create, and session handling. The commits indicate the user's work includes modifying user data structures, and improving the usage of the useSession hook. The user also worked on release management, publishing various related packages, suggesting they are familiar with the build and release process.
gatsbyreacthasurajavascriptauthentication
nikosdouvlis/javascript
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Official Javascript repository for Clerk authentication
Contributions:3 PRs, 108 pushes, 2 branches in 29 days
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