Kostas Retalis Email & Phone Number

Athens, Attiki, Greece

- Working on the Academy Team- Using Vue.js 3, Nuxt 3, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Daisy UI, Headless UI- Writing Unit Tests and Storybook

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Engineering Lead of the Website Team. Manager of two other Software Engineers.

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Technical Lead of the Website Team (Laravel, SCSS, Bootstrap, JS/jQuery). Conducting releases to production.

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Member of the Website team, cooperating closely with the Marketing team to accommodate their needs.• Contributing to other teams public pages, to provide my front-end/marketing side expertise.• Mostly working on Laravel Blade templates with PHP, MySQL, SCSS, Semantic HTML.• Using github for versioning and code reviews.• Using docker for local servers.• Working mostly with VSCode (also with PHPStorm).• Working on MAC OS for the first time.• Documenting a lot of our processes along with best practices used in our project.• Using Jira for the whole project management process, having created many automations with it.• Using github workflows to create automations for the team.• Making team presentations & dev talks.

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Technical Product Owner of the Website Team (https://www.hackthebox.com/)

Greece

• Completely redeveloped the company website in Wordpress, utilising a custom Wordpress theme from scratch (with Gutenberg blocks and SASS), ensuring both the front & back end implementation.• Delivered custom PHP / Wordpress functionalities (e.g. a Featured Posts plugin tailor made for our needs).• Proposed UI/UX solutions, participating in the design process.

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Product Owner of the Website Redevelopment Project.• I essentially ran the whole process, gathering requirements and proposing all things around marketing / SEO / GDPR / general features.• Trained the marketing team in using the Wordpress admin panel to change the page content.• Owned the marketing team platforms, from Google Tag Manager to Hotjar & Google Optimize in terms of technical specifications and solutions.

Some of the websites I developed are:https://eyzhn.com/https://organizedplay.eu/https://www.reconstruction.gr/https://sfikasaris.gr/https://plug-fit.gr/https://www.pasakomi.gr/I have mostly used Wordpress, WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, Netlify, Squarespace among other tech to accommodate clients' needs.

Greece

• Created full-stack projects in Laravel (including a spinning contest page for a well-known bet company).• Added features in existing Wordpress / WooCommerce websites.• Worked closely with another web developer, providing back-end assistance in Wordpress.

Greece

• Was the sole web developer, essentially running a Tech Lead role.• Organised and fully managed digital projects from a technical perspective.• Created full-stack projects, mainly in Wordpress / Custom PHP.• Created a contest page with several functions (e.g. an MD5 image check to avoid getting duplicate images, limits for users per day etc) where the users uploaded images in a custom PHP form included in a Wordpress website. This project was for a huge American multinational company, so I had to ensure the correct processes (e.g. using SVN to transfer changes to the files, using their databases through restricted connections etc).• Maintained / added features in existing Wordpress / Drupal projects.• Communicated the need to maintain projects and create them with a long term perspective. We started to offer maintenance packages as a company, increasing revenue.• Used cPanel, Plesk, FTP & SSH to transfer websites, set up new emails and fix server issues.• Worked with lawyers to ensure GDPR compliance in several different websites, mainly ensuring the right Cookies functionality.• Cooperated with external marketing teams to deliver solutions. • Wrote the technical parts in many proposals, trying to find the best solutions in each case (WiX is not usually the best solution :) ).

Athens, Attiki, Greece

• Created new websites, mainly using Wordpress, Magento 1 & 2, WooCommerce in both the front end and the back end part where needed. My specialty was responsive design, ensuring a solid visual result in all different screen resolutions (and not only in the "common" ones :) )• Maintained websites in the same platforms as above and also in Opencart. I was updating the platforms/plugins/themes while also ensuring security and backup processes.• Took part in the whole website building process, helping in project management, cooperating with the design team to receive meaningful designs, proposing technical solutions & extra features.• Created an ERP bridge for real time stock management for a Magento eshop, using PHP and MySQL.• Worked a lot in pagespeed improvement and cross browser compatibility.• Cooperated with the marketing team to deliver on-site SEO solutions, install marketing scripts (GTM, GA, Hotjar etc).• Used cPanel, Plesk, FTP & SSH to transfer websites, setting up new emails and fixing server issues.• Created HTML newsletters.

• Provided technical support in multiple levels for our clients, including a big Greek hospital.• Used my problem solving skills to resolve multiple issues.• Set up several new computers, printers, networks etc.