Yannis Doukas
Principal Developer at Autotrader
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYannis Doukas is a Principal Developer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, event-driven backend systems and microservices across e-commerce and telecom domains. With an MS in Software Engineering from The University of Manchester, he combines strong theoretical foundations with hands-on delivery—revamping RabbitMQ libraries, splitting monorepos to speed releases, and implementing React-based maps to improve operational visibility. He’s known for a collaborative, empathetic leadership style that empowers small teams to ship robust, traceable solutions under high-throughput conditions like Black Friday. Comfortable across infrastructure, backend, and some frontend work, he also translates technical designs into practical warehouse process improvements that drive measurable business value. Continuously curious and self-directed, Yannis routinely balances performance engineering with developer experience and observability to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at The University of ManchesterEngineer's degree Computer Engineering & Informatics, Engineer's degree Computer Engineering & Informatics at University of Patras
English, Greek
Github Skills (28)
docker10
jupyterhub10
jupyter10
jupyterlab10
binder10
jupyter-notebook10
converting9
estimote9
reference-implementation9
common-workflow-language9
science9
voila8
kernel8
notebook7
ipywidgets7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
common-workflow-lab/ipython2cwl
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
IPython2CWL is a tool for converting IPython Jupyter Notebooks to CWL Command Line Tools by simply providing typing annotation.
Contributions:5 releases, 129 commits, 35 PRs in 3 months
pythonjupyter-notebookcommand-line-toolsdockeripywidgets
giannisdoukas/CWLJNIKernel
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Jupyter Notebook Kernel for Common Workflow Language
Contributions:4 releases, 298 commits, 53 PRs in 6 months
kerneljupyter-notebooknotebookjupytercommon-workflow-language
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