Aggelos
From Greece (UTC+3)
Aggelos – Typescript, AWS, Node.js
Aggelos is a Senior full-stack engineer with strong expertise in Node.js, AWS, and distributed systems, and solid experience in React and TypeScript. He has led backend initiatives, made key architectural decisions, and contributed to projects in fintech, SaaS, and infrastructure optimization. During the vetting process, the candidate's communication was clear and client-focused, with a strong preference for startup environments!
5 years of commercial experience
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Web Engineer
Software that helps water utilities predict pipe failures and optimize infrastructure decisions.
- Designed and maintained systems handling datasets representing millions of physical assets, with a strong focus on data modeling, storage strategy, and query performance.
- Implemented complex geospatial queries and ensured ESRI compatibility for large-scale spatial analysis.
- Built and tuned a caching layer to optimize performance for data-heavy and geospatial workloads.
- Worked across PostgreSQL and MongoDB, selecting the appropriate database per use case and applying schema design and query optimization best practices.
- Developed event-driven backend services on AWS infrastructure, using AWS Lambda to offload heavy workloads and avoid blocking the Node.js main thread.
- Managed cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure provisioning via AWS CDK, covering deployment, scalability, and environment consistency.
- Contributed to the frontend architecture using Redux Saga for complex asynchronous user flows.
Backend Software Engineer
An enterprise B2B e-commerce platform built specifically for supermarkets, grocery retail chains, and FMCG brands.
- Built and evolved the company's backend using Node.js and Typescript, maintaining OpenAPI-aligned APIs for core e-commerce flows, delivery logic, and merchant operations at scale.
- Led the design and development of the merchant-side application, including real-time order updates via Web Sockets and Redis-based distribution for horizontal scaling.
- Led backend changes for multi-currency and multi-timezone support across Greece, the USA, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.
- Designed and maintained complex backend workflows for user groups, targeted discount campaigns, and delivery timeslots.
- Took ownership of production stability by addressing memory leaks and performance issues using heap snapshots, continuous profiling, and real-time production metrics.
- Set up and actively monitored Datadog, New Relic, Heroku, and MongoDB Atlas, while applying MongoDB schema design, indexing, and query optimization best practices.
- Orchestrated ERP integrations such as Lightspeed, synchronizing products, stock, categories, and images in near real time under high traffic.
Web Engineer
A leading financial technology company that specializes in software solutions for financial advisors.
- Worked on a Smart Cities project, contributing across backend, frontend, and production deployment in an enterprise environment.
- Contributed to public sector systems for two organizations, supporting applications with direct operational impact on national energy infrastructure.
- Developed and maintained FastAPI backend services supporting complex multi-role permission models and role-based access for dashboards and internal workflows.
- Built React user interfaces for the main application and an internal administrative dashboard used daily by end users and company staff.
- Contributed to the consolidation of multiple independent applications into a unified platform, laying the foundation for the platform
- Designed and delivered new features for the platform, improving performance and usability, and contributing to a 20% increase in user engagement.
- Containerized services with Docker and handled deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting on unmanaged Ubuntu servers.