Hello I'm Nikos Oikonomou!

In 2023, I started switching into a less team oriented role, handed over the Tech Lead role to another team member and started working towards building a second team from the ground up. Together with both teams, we are currently working on evolving our technology and bringing in more sophisticated features to our platform while maintaining a very strong focus on the quality of our code and the reliability of our services.

Not much later on, I assumed the role of Tech Lead. My main focus was to lead the development of the back-end services and help the team build a scalable and reliable platform. I was also responsible for the architecture and the design of the back-end services and I was working closely with the product team to understand the business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.

In 2022, I joined Kariera Group as a Senior Backend Engineer. From the beginning my role was to contribute on the most challenging and not so clearly defined parts of the product development. I took as many features as possible in my own hands and lead them to completion in the most rapid and efficient way.

In 2021, I became Centaur's Director Of Engineering in charge of leading the Centaur's R&D department. I lead the Product Development process and orchestrated the entire team's task workflow.

With the help of our team, I started scaling our department by adding more members to it and I worked closely with all team leads to make sure we identified and understood any personal or team problem and tried to resolve it as fast as possible.

Finally, as I was already experienced with Centaur's cloud infrastructure I started working with our DevOps team to identify and resolve cluster and deployment issues. To make our cloud more stable and easier to monitor and at the same time build my DevOps knowledge, I started upgrading our technology to use more modern tools and versions and moved our cluster from self-managed to provider-managed.

In 2018, I became a senior software engineer and leader of Centaur’s embedded team, and in parallel, I was supporting the web team by taking some load off of their hands when a critical deadline approached. This allowed me to rapidly create truly end-to-end solutions, ranging from the embedded device to the client application.

I was also responsible for managing the backlog, coordinating the team, and interviewing/training new team members.

Occasionally, on the side, I supported the field engineers, and sometimes I directly communicated with the clients to resolve their issues.

In 2016 I joined the web app team, as a full-stack developer, to work with Centaur’s cloud services. My responsibilities included both back-end and front-end development, but I focused more on the back-end working with its architecture and migrating from monolith to microservices to build a more scalable cloud infrastructure.

After my first year at Centaur, I started working with IoT devices to support the embedded team. I initially participated as a secondary developer for the software of the IP-enabled devices but I quickly took the lead of all the software and firmware layers for such devices.

I began my career as an intern at Centaur, collaborating with the web application team on front-end and back-end tasks. My responsibilities included maintaining and enhancing the testability of the existing codebase, with a focus on improving stability and performance across various lower-priority projects.