My name is Stavros Giannakis, I am 33 years (8 days and 11:22:29) old, currently living in Berlin, Germany. I have a Master's degree in Computer Science, having graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. I am a Software Engineer with 6+ years of work experience, with a variety of development frameworks. Furthermore, I possess a sound understanding of Machine Learning aspects, participating in a research team that engages with problems related with textual data. Always enthusiastic and eager to learn new technologies and expand the existing arsenal of development tools. Currently, I am working as a full stack developer (NestJS / Angular) for PowerUs GmbH.
Tech and soft skills
Still learning and studying, but here is a rough estimation of my skill set.
Technical Skills
Object-Oriented Programming
.NET Framework / Core
Other backend frameworks (ExpressJS, NextJS, Flask)
Modern Frontend Frameworks (React, Vue, Angular)
Databases (Relational & NoSQL)
Machine Learning Aspects
Cloud (Azure)
Soft skills
Familiar with the Agile Methodology
Effective management of pressure and deadlines
Effective in planning and decision making
Adaptive to new technologies/methodologies
Problem Solving / Algorithmic thinking
Communication & Teamwork
Notable projects I have worked on
Some of the projects shown below have been implemented for academic purposes, others just for fun.
Government Gazette Automatic Crawler
Implemented an automatic crawler to retrieve daily the newly released Government Gazette Issues from the National Printing Office’s website, paired with a custom administrator tool for the management of the downloaded documents.
'How do you feel?'
A sentiment analysis platform, with custom machine learning models. It can also communicate with a variety of social media APIs (Twitter, Reddit, Youtube) to retrieve and analyze texts based on a query, graphically presenting the results to the user.
Game of Life Implementation
CUDA & MPI Implementation of the famous 1970 cellular automaton, as well as animation of the results via a custom gnuplot script.
'Shrinklink'
A URL shrinker application, where the user enters a URL and a smaller version of it appears, for easier copy/pasting of gargantuan links.
HCII 2021 Publication
'A Sentiment Analysis Web Platform for Multiple Social Media Types and Language-Specific Customizations' .For more information visit: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-78462-1_24
'Get out'
Developed as a team project for a university course, it is an escape room inspired 3D game, where the played has to solve riddles and get out (hehe) of a haunted house within the time limit.
Wordle Clone
Jumped on the Wordle craze train and developed a copy version of the famous word quiz. Play at https://totally-original-idea.netlify.app
LingLand
Developed for the DeMiNeS, it is a photo library containing a variety of graffiti, street slogans and more. Can be visited at: https://demines-lingland.del.auth.com
Interests!
While developing stuff and looking into new things to learn is one of my biggest passions, well.. there are other things that get me pumped and help me get through life. Here are some of them!
Sports (#COYS)
Videogames, with a little extra love for the Legend of Zelda series.
Cocktails & Mixology (worked as a bartender for almost 7 years!)
Cooking and trying new cuisines.
Music - Hiphop-head for almost 20 years, member of the legendary* Sigma Pi band as a DJ & turntablist. * terms and conditions apply
Traveling and exploring new places around the globe