Nikos Oikonomou
VP Of Engineering at Kariera Group
Greece
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Top SchoolNikos Oikonomou is a VP of Engineering with 10 years of experience building scalable web and IoT systems, currently leading engineering at Kariera Group from Greece. He combines deep backend expertise—microservices, cloud migrations, CI/CD and observability—with hands-on experience in embedded Linux and device communication protocols. Progressing from intern to director-level roles, he has a track record of refactoring monoliths into resilient distributed architectures and moving deployments to provider-managed Kubernetes. Nikos emphasizes engineering best practices (GitOps, naming conventions, coding standards) and has repeatedly led hiring, mentoring, and documentation efforts to grow high-performing teams. He’s comfortable across the full stack and uniquely bridges firmware-to-cloud delivery, often stepping into DevOps and product-facing conversations to resolve operational challenges. His academic background in software engineering and hardware/architecture informs pragmatic decisions that balance rapid delivery with long-term reliability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering and Information Systems Hardware and Computer Architecture, Master's degree Software Engineering and Information Systems Hardware and Computer Architecture at University of Thessaly
English, Greek
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Github Skills (76)
zephyr-rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
git-repository10
scalable10
infiniband10
sqlite10
freertos10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
sql-server10
iot10
nodejs10
mongodb10
query-builder10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikooiko/bus-tracker
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
nikooiko/zephyr
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Primary GIT Repository for the Zephyr Project
Contributions:1 PR, 76 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 2 months
git-repositoryzephyr
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