Sokratis Vidros
Founding Engineer at Feather Labs
Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolSokratis Vidros is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building and scaling product-focused teams and platforms, currently a founding engineer at Feather Labs after VP and Head of Engineering roles at Novu and Clerk. He has repeatedly taken 0-to-1 ideas to market, helping startups that collectively raised over $200M and leading a global team of 16 to ship a user management product used by thousands. Technically hands-on, he contributes to open-source projects like Novu’s notification platform and Clerk’s auth core, with a focus on fixing critical authentication flows and adding Web3 wallet support. His background spans full-stack engineering, identity and access, and cloud-native platform work from companies like Workable and SAP, and research in SaaS fraud detection using ML/NLP. Based in Athens, he pairs formal training in communications and computer security from Télécom Paris with pragmatic product instincts honed across startups. Colleagues describe him as a builder who blends deep technical problem solving with recruiting and strategy to turn early-stage ideas into durable products.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Communications and Computer Security, Master of Science Communications and Computer Security at Télécom ParisElectrical and Computer Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Software Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, French
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Github Skills (14)
json10
typescript10
authentication10
javascript10
user-authentication10
nodejs10
typescripts10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
react10
typescript-types10
testing10
expressjs8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
clerk/javascript
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Official JavaScript repository for Clerk authentication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1045 reviews, 336 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sokratis primarily contributed to the backend core of the Clerk authentication system. Their work involved adding Web3Wallet support by modifying JSON and User resource files to parse and incorporate web3_wallet payloads into the User model. They expanded the existing codebase to include new features, data structures, and API resources related to web3 wallet verification. The user also made changes to the test suite to accommodate and validate the newly added web3 wallet functionalities.
gatsbyreacthasurajavascriptauthentication
novuhq/novu
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Open-Source Notification Platform. Embeddable Notification Center, E-mail, Push and Slack Integrations.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1718 reviews, 620 PRs, 1198 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sokratis primarily addressed authentication issues within the `novu/novu` repository. Their contributions focused on fixing login error surfacing, which involved modifications to the API code, testing frameworks, and frontend components. They also tackled issues such as handling OAuth login errors and improving the display of error messages within the user interface, indicating a focus on resolving critical user-facing problems in the authentication flow. Additionally, they refactored code relating to features related to signing-up and managing organizations.
jsvue-reactnotificationsvuereactjs
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