Summary
Panayiotis Kritiotis is a Senior Engineering Manager with nine years of experience building and operating scalable backend and cloud-native systems from startups to large enterprises. He has led cross-functional teams of up to 19 people, owned domain architecture and SRE practices, and driven product monetization and collaboration features end-to-end. Known for “keeping the lights on” while also shipping new capabilities, he blends hands-on technical leadership—designing distributed services, real-time sync and multi-tenant SaaS platforms—with strong execution and hiring/mentoring skills. His background includes launching Linearity Cloud and maintaining a company-wide Go microservices framework at FREENOW, reflecting a knack for practical infrastructure and developer experience improvements. Based in Nicosia, Cyprus, he pairs Imperial College software engineering training with a track record of aligning product strategy and reliable operations.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computing (Software Engineering), Master of Science (MSc) Computing (Software Engineering) at Imperial College London
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Ioannina
English, Greek