Yorgos Kakavas
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Knauf Digital
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolYorgos Kakavas is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Munich with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping web and backend systems for startups and enterprise clients. He has led and contributed to complex projects across Node, React, Vue, GraphQL and TypeScript stacks, delivering real-time data pipelines, SSR React solutions and performant SDKs for clients like Volkswagen, ProSieben and Deutschlandradio. Comfortable toggling between microservices, ElasticSearch-backed GraphQL layers and WebRTC/video integrations, he blends backend systems thinking with polished frontend architectures. As a freelancer and consultant he helped several MVPs and built an Amazon-seller analytics product that used real-time websockets, microservices and sophisticated data aggregation. His background in chemical engineering and early roles in operational environments inform a pragmatic, measurement-driven approach to performance and reliability. Currently at Knauf Digital, he focuses on scalable full-stack solutions while continuing to drive open-source and tooling work.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Chemical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Chemical Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek, Spanish
Stackoverflow
31reputation
51reached
5answers
1question
Github Skills (44)
react-select10
react9
marketplace8
mailchimp8
private-repository7
mongodb7
opt7
cart7
nodejs6
api6
meteor6
commerce6
permission6
docker6
typescript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
artlimes/minimal-react-select
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:63 commits, 44 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 months
react-jsreactjsreact
Falenos/exo-js
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:16 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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