Vassilis Bekiaris
Software Engineer at poolside
Greece
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Top SchoolVassilis Bekiaris is a software engineer with 10 years of focused experience building and hardening distributed data systems and backend services, now based in Greece. He spent a decade at Hazelcast advancing IMDG core features and query/SQL predicate robustness, contributing to the well-known Hazelcast open-source platform and its official code samples. Prior roles include leading engineering teams and technical management for gaming and platform companies, evidencing both hands-on coding and delivery leadership. His work frequently blends testing, refactoring, and practical API/sample improvements that make complex distributed features easier for users to adopt. Vassilis holds an Engineer’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has a long-running habit of improving developer-facing artifacts—tests, samples, and configuration tooling—alongside core engine work. Now at poolside, he continues to apply systems-level thinking to production-grade backend challenges.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Electrical and Computers Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Electrical and Computers Engineering at Ethniko Metsovio Polytechnico
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Github Skills (17)
sql-query10
jcache10
testing10
hazelcast10
distributed-systems10
java10
javas10
sql10
data-structure9
caching9
data-structures9
network-configuration8
scalability6
vertx6
amazon-ec26
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:963 reviews, 721 commits, 1113 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vassilis's commits focus on implementing and testing improvements to the Hazelcast database query capabilities, specifically regarding SQL predicate tests, refactoring implementations, and adding new SQL predicate tests. The user's contributions involve modifying code within the Hazelcast database query functionality. The work is centered around improving the robustness and functionality of the query engine, including testing various predicate scenarios. The user demonstrates experience in testing and database query logic.
computationstream-processingbigtablereal-timestreaming-data
hazelcast/hazelcast-code-samples
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
Hazelcast Code Samples
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 22 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Vassilis primarily focused on updating and improving Hazelcast code samples. Their contributions include updating JCache samples to utilize HazelcastInstance, modifying continuous query samples to leverage natural filtering event types, and adding code for dynamic datastructure configuration. They also updated and adapted split-brain protection code samples and made enhancements to the code samples related to advanced network configuration.
javahazelcastin-memoryscalability
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