Software engineer and engineering leader with 25+ years of experience designing and shipping applications — from standalone tools to web-scale platforms. Java & cloud specialist, mentor, and creator of the Synergo collaborative platform.
I am a software engineer and engineering leader with over 25 years of experience designing and shipping applications — from standalone tools to web-scale platforms. I specialize in building backend systems that run efficiently with minimal resources while handling substantial traffic.
My day-to-day stack centers on Java with Spring Boot and Hibernate, complemented by Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS, MySQL, IBM Drools and Quartz Scheduler. On the operations side I work extensively with Docker, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud and Google App Engine.
Today I serve as Director of Engineering at Dobility, Inc., the company behind SurveyCTO. Beyond writing code, I am passionate about mentoring engineers and growing small, high-trust teams through coaching and clear leadership.
My PhD work, completed in 2007 at the University of Patras, focused on synchronous peer-to-peer collaboration — including a proprietary Java-sockets protocol that powers the Synergo platform.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School of the University of Patras.
PhD thesis: “Analysis and support of small-group collaboration using diagrammatic representations” (PDF ). Member of the HCI research group of the University of Patras.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School of the University of Patras.
Diploma thesis: “Development and Implementation of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) using advanced programming languages (Java)”.