Theodoros Polychniatis
Manager Business Applications
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTheodoros Polychniatis is a software engineering manager based in Amsterdam with two decades of experience spanning engineering, product ownership, and technical consultancy, and 12 years in leadership roles. He currently leads Business Applications at RIPE NCC, ensuring 24x7 reliability of critical internet registry and member services while nurturing a ~20-person Scrum organization. He has a strong track record of pragmatic delivery—leading a successful migration of a 15+ year legacy system and replacing payment and billing stacks to improve reliability and free scarce engineering resources. Skilled at aligning strategy, OKRs, and DORA-driven metrics with stakeholder priorities, he blends hands-on technical knowledge (Java, Spring, Scala, REST) with people-first management and coaching. His background in code quality consultancy and academic research gives him a rare combination of deep maintainability insight and systems-level thinking. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who balances operational rigor with room for innovation.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Business Informatics, MSc, Business Informatics at Utrecht UniversityMSc, Techno - Economic Systems, MSc, Techno - Economic Systems at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, Dutch
Github Skills (18)
whois10
database10
oai7
json-api7
springfox7
spring-data-rest7
spring-boot7
spring6
java6
openapi5
api5
api-documentation5
swagger5
json5
specification3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rpsl4j/rpsl4j-parser
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:65 commits in 1 year 4 months
policyspecification-languagespecificationroutingjava
RIPE-NCC/whois
Oct 2013 - Jul 2016
RIPE Database whois code repository
Contributions:2 releases, 775 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 9 months
code-repositorywhoisdatabaseripe
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