Yiannis Savvakis
Senior Software Engineer at Silverfin
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolYiannis Savvakis is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building high-traffic web platforms, hybrid mobile apps and scalable architectures from Athens, Greece. He specializes in modern front-end stacks (React/Redux, Jest, Storybook) while retaining deep PHP/Ruby backend expertise and MySQL/ORM design, having shipped features across large SPAs and betting platforms. At OpenBet he grew into tech-lead and mentoring roles, applying SAFe planning and best practices for large-scale apps, and more recently contributed frontend engineering at Nokia before joining Silverfin. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines practical tooling knowledge (Webpack, Babel, ELK) with experience in CI/CD and cross-browser debugging. Notably, his background spans entrepreneurship and product-facing engineering—co-founding an e-commerce business and building custom CMS, APIs and mobile-first interfaces—bringing both delivery focus and product empathy to teams.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Applied computing and multimedia Engineer, Computer Science, Applied computing and multimedia Engineer, Computer Science at Technological Educational Institute of Crete
Greek, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
google-translate7
calculator6
internet-explorer6
localization5
deepl5
icu4
translation4
i18next3
internationalization3
multiple-languages3
translate3
json2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
savvakis/loaner
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
Mortgage loan calculator (UI in greek only)
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 91 pushes in 1 year 7 months
calculatorloan-calculatorloanmortgage
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