Hello I'm Nikos Oikonomou!

Promoted to VP of Engineering to lead the company's growing technical organization. My focus shifted from deep technical involvement to high-level engineering management, team scalability, and strategic alignment with product and business goals. I now oversee multiple squads, guide the engineering vision, and ensure operational excellence across projects.

Transitioned into a less team-oriented role, handing over the Tech Lead position to another team member while building a second team from the ground up. Together with both teams, we evolved our technology and brought sophisticated features to our platform while maintaining strong focus on code quality and service reliability.

Promoted to Tech Lead, leading backend service development and helping the team build a scalable and reliable platform. Responsible for architecture and design of backend services, working closely with the product team to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

Joined Kariera Group as Senior Backend Engineer, contributing to the most challenging and undefined parts of product development. Took ownership of multiple features and led them to completion rapidly and efficiently, focusing on mission-critical functionality and third-party integrations.

Promoted to Director of Engineering, leading the R&D department and orchestrating the Product Development process and team workflow. Scaled the department by adding team members and worked closely with team leads to identify and resolve personal and team challenges quickly.

Leveraging my experience with Centaur's cloud infrastructure, I collaborated with the DevOps team to identify and resolve cluster and deployment issues. I upgraded our technology stack to modern tools and versions, migrating our cluster from self-managed to provider-managed for improved stability and monitoring.

Promoted to senior software engineer and leader of Centaur's embedded team, while supporting the web team during critical deadlines. This enabled me to create truly end-to-end solutions, ranging from embedded devices to client applications, and manage the backlog, coordinate the team, and interview/train new members.

I also supported field engineers and directly communicated with clients to resolve issues, ensuring comprehensive problem-solving across all aspects of the product lifecycle.

Joined the web app team as a full-stack developer, working with Centaur's cloud services. Responsibilities included both backend and frontend development, with focus on backend architecture and migrating from monolith to microservices for scalable cloud infrastructure.

After the first year, expanded into IoT device development to support the embedded team. Initially participated as a secondary developer for IP-enabled devices but quickly took leadership of all software and firmware layers for such devices.

Started my career as an intern at Centaur, collaborating with the web application team on frontend and backend tasks. Focused on maintaining and enhancing the testability of the existing codebase, improving stability and performance across various lower-priority projects.