Nikos Makaritis
Senior Software Engineer at Newcode.ai
Volos Municipality, Thessaly, Greece
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Top SchoolNikos Makaritis is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and IoT platforms, currently driving engineering at Newcode.ai. He has a strong track record in startup and research environments, having founded and led backend teams that delivered high-availability APIs and real-time IoT microservices used in partnerships with companies like John Deere. Nikos blends hands-on coding (Django, Celery, Redis) with architecture and observability best practices (Prometheus, Grafana), improving throughput and reducing debugging time across multiple products. He also brings domain expertise in smart agriculture from Horizon-funded projects and a PhD candidacy focused on integrated IoT systems, which informs his pragmatic approach to sensor data and edge connectivity challenges. Known for taking full ownership of codebases and mentoring teams, he has a history of turning imperfect hardware and connectivity into reliable, production-grade services. Based in Volos, Greece, he combines academic rigor with startup velocity to deliver measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Design and development of an integrated IoT system for smart agriculture, PhD Candidate Design and development of an integrated IoT system for smart agriculture at University of Thessaly
Greek, English, French
Github Skills (13)
rental7
mongoose6
expressjs5
api4
movie4
mongodb4
rest-api3
directives3
restful3
restful-api3
nodejs3
angularjs2
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
m4knV/movieRental
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
A RESTful API for Online Movie Rental using Node.js, MongoDB and Mongoose
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years
apirentalexpressjsnode-jsrestful
m4knV/rp-porfolio
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 day
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