Vassilis Dimitrakis
Frontend Engineer At Automattic
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolVassilis Dimitrakis is a seasoned frontend engineer with over 15 years of professional experience, currently shaping user-facing experiences at Automattic and Tumblr from Greece. He excels in pixel-perfect, animated interfaces and UI/UX-driven front-end engineering, with deep proficiency across JS frameworks, PHP, and major CMS platforms. His career spans agency leadership and senior roles for brands like Coca‑Cola, Nike and BMW, as well as product work at Viva Wallet, delivering projects across 20+ countries. At Automattic he contributed to the high-profile wp-calypso codebase, refactoring UI components and driving a branding transition within WordPress.com. Comfortable as both a freelancer and team lead, he blends design sensibility with engineering rigor and mentors students at Athens University of Economics and Business. Collected experience from advertising, fintech and platform teams gives him a pragmatic knack for turning complex requirements into polished, maintainable front-end systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
College, 3D Animation, College, 3D Animation at AKTO School of Art and DesignHigh School, High School at 29th High School of AthensMA, Digital Media, MA, Digital Media at London Metropolitan UniversityHIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Classical Lyceum of AnavritaBA Hons, Electronic Graphics, 2.1, BA Hons, Electronic Graphics, 2.1 at University of Staffordshire
English, Greek, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (10)
uid10
s610
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
wordpress9
css8
html8
redux6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:144 reviews, 25 commits, 102 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vassilis primarily focused on updating and refactoring UI components within the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their work included adjusting the layout of the advertising page, modifying dialog boxes, fixing menu casing, and replacing string values across multiple files. A significant contribution involved replacing the "Promote" functionality with "Blaze" branding throughout the application, including new icons and illustrations. They also integrated new UI elements using React components and made various style changes.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
therocket-gr/jetpack
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
expertswordpresssecurityfasterjetpack
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