Simon Tzanakis
Senior Java Developer at Europeana
Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorSimon Tzanakis is a Senior Java Developer with 11 years of experience building and migrating large-scale distributed systems, currently leading the redesign of Europeana’s big-data ingestion and processing platform. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, Hibernate and testing with practical experience across messaging, NoSQL and search technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, Mongo, Solr and Redis. Skilled in taking undocumented legacy systems to production-ready, cloud-native architectures, he drives architectural decisions, release cycles and complex reprocessing efforts. Simon also brings DevOps and orchestration experience (Cloud Foundry) and a disciplined approach to documentation and test-driven delivery. He mentors engineers to raise code quality and independence, translating ambiguous requirements into auditable solutions. Notably, he thrives on tackling projects where investigative reverse-engineering of legacy components is a core part of the job.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (90)
search-api10
stream-processing10
europeana10
oai-pmh10
core-library10
solr10
data-model10
api10
data-processing10
oai10
rap10
applet10
spring10
jsinterop10
metis10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
europeana/REPOX
Jun 2015 - May 2019
Data Aggregation and Interoperability Manager
Contributions:2 releases, 36 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 11 months
interoperabilitydata-aggregationaggregation
stzanakis/api-harvester
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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