Pericles Theodorou
Senior Software Engineer at Qonto
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPericles Theodorou is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts at high-growth startups and scaleups including Qonto, Intercom, Deliveroo and carwow. He combines hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular Typhoeus libcurl wrapper improving concurrency, caching, and test robustness—with practical product leadership from a CTO stint at a fintech startup. Comfortable shipping systems from the ground up, he has repeatedly led teams and features in fast-paced environments to deliver customer-facing products. Pericles pairs a strong Ruby/Rails background with production-minded problem solving and a track record of improving maintainability and efficiency in critical libraries. An entrepreneur at heart, he also founded a consumer-facing startup earlier in his career, bringing product empathy to technical decisions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Leaving Certificate, Computer Science, 18.1/20.0, High School Leaving Certificate, Computer Science, 18.1/20.0 at Laniteio Lyceum ABachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Montclair State University
English, Greek
Github Skills (5)
ruby10
testing10
concurrency10
caching9
version-control8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
typhoeus/typhoeus
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 15 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Pericles contributed to improving the robustness and maintainability of the Typhoeus library. They addressed concurrency issues within the testing suite, resolved outdated documentation, and fixed versioning issues. Furthermore, the user modified the code to leverage Rails' cache store correctly, improving efficiency, and updated the version number.
libcurlwrapsphptyphoeusreliable
PericlesTheo/periclestheo.github.io
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Personal blog @
Contributions:6 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
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