Paris Apostolopoulos
Engineering Manager at Lloyds Banking Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolParis Apostolopoulos is an experienced engineering manager based in London with 12 years in leadership roles and over 20 years of hands-on software engineering focused on backend and platform systems. He has led platform and payments initiatives across financial and retail sectors—driving identity and loyalty platform redesigns, cloud migrations, and core banking ledger work using event-driven patterns. At Holland & Barrett he scaled teams and modernised legacy stacks, cutting operational costs by millions while improving performance and GDPR compliance; at Ticketmaster and Mettle he delivered high-availability APIs, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and event-sourced payment integrations. Paris pairs technical depth in Java, distributed systems and cloud-native tooling with an MBA, enabling him to bridge engineering, product and compliance effectively. He also publishes technical writing via blog.javapapo.com, reflecting a long-running curiosity about practical engineering and platform design.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of WolverhamptonMBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at University of Kent
English, Greek
Stackoverflow
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62answers
8questions
Github Skills (200)
jenkins-api-plugin10
switch10
spring-security10
scheduling10
maven10
mesos10
client-library10
kubectl10
kubernetes10
nexus10
java10
go10
development-environment10
spring-boot10
aws-cli10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
javapapo/crawly
Dec 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:212 pushes, 7 branches, 29 tags in 3 years 6 months
javapapo/papo-public
Oct 2013 - May 2019
Contributions:70 commits, 70 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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