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👋 Hiya! I am John and I am a web-developer. My passion is to create online web applications and teach others how to do so. I have more than 12 years of professional experience as a programmer and the last 3 years I am mainly focused on coaching small and medium size teams. You probably have heard of me from my famous open-source library named Grocery CRUD or my YouTube channel Happy Developers. If you like to learn more about me scroll down to see my bio.

My mission in one phrase
My mission is to create beautiful and professional websites and helping other people to do it so by sharing this knowledge.

Personal Information
 

Experience
Nov. 2014 – Now :: OpenBet Ltd
Athens – Greece
 
Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Nov. 2012 – Nov. 2014 :: QS Quacquarelli Symonds
London – United Kingdom
 
Lead Developer
  • Leading a team of developers responsible for a back-end system built primarily for data collection from the clients of the Company.
  • Steering Agile/Scrum driven process: daily scrums, code reviews, sprint planning, etc.
  • Responsible of development, staging, QA and production environment servers.
  • Making high level system architecture decisions , defining coding rules, writing documentation, optimizing performance issues, extending MVC framework to fit new needs.

For the development I am working with: OO PHP and Zend Framework, JavaScript, Apache, MySQL, Nginx and Linux bash commands. I have a good feel of app/user interaction and interface issues and I develop having the end user’s experience always in mind by using advanced HTML 5 and CSS 3 techniques.

Other tools/projects that I am currently working with: Webistrano (deployment server), Jenkins (testing server), Redmine (project management), Linux and LAMP (development), nginx and Amazon Web Services.
Nov. 2011 – Nov. 2012 :: QS Quacquarelli Symonds
London – United Kingdom
 
Web Developer
  • Develop and improve the back-end system of the company.
  • Development mostly based on Zend Framework and RESTful services.
Dec. 2007 – Nov. 2011 :: Nelios
Athens – Greece
 
Senior Web Developer
  • Web application Programmer.
  • PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX applications.
  • Especially works with PHP and PHP Codeigniter framework.
  • Creation of custom websites and working with:
    • Frameworks: PHP frameworks, .net framework
    • Database connections:  MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL
    • Web services: XML Services, RSS, facebook, twitter, etc.
    • Designing tools: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash
    • Programming Tools:  Eclipse, Visual Studio
  • Developing new technologies such as creation of Facebook applications, cell phone applications, web services.
  • Business Consulting.
  • Personal achievements:
    • Creation of the entire CMS (XLixis CMS)  for the company Nelios.com.
    • Creation of a web application which has the functionality of uploading files through FTP automatically as soon as there is a change to the SVN repository.

Education
2002-2006 :: University of Piraeus – Graduated from the Academic Department of Digital Systems
  • University Scholarship from IKY (State Scholarships Foundation) for excellent grades on the 2nd year of study.
  • BSc thesis for the last semester with subject “Web Application on Video Surveillance”, written in PHP  with grade 10/10.
 

Personal Portfolio

  

Languages

  
  • English – Certificate of Competency in English
  • French Intermediate Level – Diplôme d’ études en langue Française (Delf) 1er  Degré
  • Greek – Native language
  • Egyptian
  • Armenian
  

Knowledge and Achievements

  
  • Creation of a PHP Codeigniter Framework library – www.grocerycrud.com with thousands downloads so far.
  • Programming knowledge: PHP, .NET applications and web applications, C#, Visual Basic, C++, Java and Java Applets, Flash – ActionScript, Matlab, Pascal.
  • Database: mySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
  • Design: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, HTML, HTML 5, CSS, CSS 3, JavaScript.
  • Browsers worked with: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari.
  • OS: Unix, Linux, MACOS, Windows, Android, Windows Mobile.
  • PHP Frameworks: Codeigniter, Yii, Zend, Kohana.
  • JavaScript Frameworks: Jquery, Mootools, Spry, DoJo, Prototype.
  • CMS: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PyroCMS.
  • CRM: Microsoft CRM, Redmine, SugarCRM.
  • Version control: Apache Subversion with SVN files, Git,  MS Visual Studio Team Explorer.
  • Other: Microsoft Share Point, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio.
  

Book I am currently Reading

  
 

Open Source Projects that I am actively working on:

  
 

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