Therapon Skoteiniotis
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTherapon Skoteiniotis is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of industry experience building developer-facing systems and tooling across startups and large tech firms. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern—with hands-on production experience at Amazon, The Trade Desk, Kaskada (acquired by DataStax), and most recently Zoo. He repeatedly returns to teaching as a lecturer at Northeastern, signaling a passion for mentoring and translating research into practical curriculum and tooling. His background includes language- and IDE-focused work (e.g., OCaml tooling during a Jane Street summer project), reflecting a long-standing interest in programming languages and developer productivity. Colleagues know him for tackling hard systems problems that improve developer workflows and for bridging research-grade ideas with production constraints. Based in Seattle, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic engineering to teams building scalable, developer-centric platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
American AcademyBSc Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College LondonMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, Greek
Github Skills (76)
parser10
streaming10
mws10
sql10
json10
serializer10
java10
amazon-ion10
amazon10
kotlin10
javascript9
hash9
python9
complex-event-processing9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kaskada-ai/docs-site
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
Antora related setup to build kaskada documentation
Contributions:12 reviews, 23 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
therapon/sample
May 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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