Dimitris Messinis Email & Phone Number

Viella, Occitanie, FR

France

Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece

On comes COVID. And along with it, a strong need for independence. This led me to incorporate Loopa, my one-man-show development studio.Leveraging the skills gained in my previous endeavours, where I tended to wear many hats, combined with a strong network of ex-colleagues, I started out on my own to support businesses that needed a -temporary- helping hand.

★ SummaryOnce again I put my fire-fighter hat on, and joined the trenches of the monolithic-to-microservices battle that ensued at Exit Bee, a SaaS startup providing an ad serving platform with a twist.Using lessons learned in past experiences in frontend, backend, and devops roles, I helped build a beautiful client-facing product, and assisted in.

Thessaloniki, Greece

★ SummaryHelping out with scaling up a monolith web service running on a bare metal server into a modern micro-service architecture running on a containerized environment in the cloud was a challenge I just had to accept. Especially when it comes from one of the most successful bootstrapped startups in the Greek startup scene. This was a ride I had to get.

Thessaloniki, Greece

• ★ SummaryMaps!I've been fascinated by them ever since I was a child.Thus, joining Draxis, an environmental tech firm with a strong track record in building GIS-based web applications for the public sector, was a.
• ️ Development work on multiple Horizon2020 Projects, such as: - - https://www.hackair.eu - - https://apollo-h2020.eu
• ️ Mentoring junior developers
• ️ Writing up work package deliverables, and presenting them to project partners
• ️ Developing and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure

Athens, Greece

★ SummaryLividia, a boutique development shop based in London, hired me to help complete a contract that was well behind schedule.After 9 months, a prototype web app initially built with codeigniter was transformed into a fully-fledged MVP with a separate angular.js front-end, hosted on AWS and a CI pipeline that the team revered.A great short stint that.

Toulouse Area, France

• ★ SummaryThis was my first stint with a multi-national corporation, a huge step for me at the time.Being based in Toulouse, France, I interacted with stakeholders throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East on a.
• ️ Planning / implementation / supervision over large-scale Syngenta IS deployments.
• ️ Supervision of incidents and maintenance tasks on Syngenta IS infrastructure throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
• ️ Daily communication with local/regional IS management.

Athens, Greece

• ★ SummaryI consider my time with Systematics as my training ground, which bolstered me into the IT industry with a myriad of experiences. Systematics - a service provider with hundreds of clients throughout Greece and.
• ️ Design & implementation of multiple large scale IT solutions
• ️ Level 3 support for large clients based in Greece, Serbia, Montenegro.
• ️ Training client's staff for easy transition into new solutions.
• ️ Management of a small team of technicians, the team’s mission to provide 1st and 2nd tier support to customers.