Summary
Nikos Efthias is a self-taught software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building services in PHP, Node.js, Go and Rust, currently contributing at Dedecta. He has co-founded and led engineering at startups (vida.events, MugSoft) where he focused on distributed systems and efficient inter-node communication. Nikos enjoys reverse-engineering and hacking binary protocols—skills he applied building and continually improving a personal mobile proxy used across his projects. A licensed ham radio operator (TA3PKS) and avid traveler, he moved across ~8,000 km from Russia to Turkey by trailer, preferring English for professional communication. Though not actively job hunting, he welcomes collaborations on interesting technical challenges, especially those involving low-level protocols or systems engineering. Based in Tbilisi, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with deep practical expertise in networking and backend engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
muhendislik fakultesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, muhendislik fakultesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği at Istanbul University
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Turkish, Greek, Russian