HIGHLIGHTED WORK EXPERIENCE

• CurrencyFair (Jun 2024 - Present) – Lead Engineer.
  • Lead design development on defined API collections and support all Technical discussions within their group.
  • Support Product Owners in defining proper requirements and technical details for the integration of projects, following company architectures and standards.
  • Architect systems and services following best practices, create shareable artifacts for these designs.
  • Manage, coach and develop a Delivery Team of Engineers to ensure high engagement, technical curiosity and collaborative culture in their teams.
  • Maintain and evolve cloud infrastructure.
  • Participate in a daily & nightly on-call rota.
  • Collect evidence and participate in external audits.
  • Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders on defining medium and long term strategic goals.
• European Commission (DG COMP) (Feb 2024 - Jun 2024) – Application & Cloud Architect..
  • Selecting and/or adapting the tech stack for existing and new projects.
  • Providing PoCs and implementing new features, in the context of one of the DG's teams.
• CurrencyFair/Zai (Dec 2021 - Feb 2024) – Lead Engineer.
  • Lead design development on defined API collections and support all Technical discussions within their group.
  • Support Product Owners in defining proper requirements and technical details for the integration of projects, following company architectures and standards.
  • Architect systems and services following best practices, create shareable artifacts for these designs.
  • Manage, coach and develop a Delivery Team of Engineers to ensure high engagement, technical curiosity and collaborative culture in their teams.
• European Commission (DG ENER/MOVE) (Mar 2021 - Dec 2021) – Java team architect. Existing systems/services integration and enhancement, plus new projects analysis and implementation.
• Currency Fair (Jun 2018 - Mar 2021) – End-to-end implementation of existing/new product features, aimed at B2C and B2B.
• PublicPro (May 2017 - Jun 2018) – Technical coordination for the implementation of a micro-services based application, responsible for handling the public sector's procurement work-flow.
• MADIS European Parliament Members' Administration Information System (May 2017 - November 2017) – Built custom tool, facilitating migration between platform version database models. Built Use Cases UI screens, as defined by the European Parliament.
• CERIF Reporting Tool for the H2020 RICH Observatory (May 2017 - November 2017) – Refactoring, customization and integration into the RICH observatory site of an existing, web-based, CERIF entity report & visualization application.
• H2020 AURORA “Advanced Ultraviolet Radiation and Ozone Retrieval for Applications” (Nov 2016 - Jul 2017) – Design and implementation of a J2EE based REST API, on top of a GIS database, as well as an end-user web based portal..
• Scriptum (Jul 2016 - Jan 2017) – Refactoring & re-implementation of the original, web-based, SCRIPTUM electronic protocol platform, to cover the specific needs of the National Self-Employeed Professionals Organization (OAEE).
• H2020-EU.3.7 City.Risks. "Avoiding and mitigating safety risks in urban environments" (Sep 2015 - Dec 2016) Design and implementation of a J2EE based REST API, on top of a GIS database. Design of the necessary software infrastructure, facilitating service creation by project partners.
• FP7/ICT c-Space "An affordable tool to turn the space surrounding us into a creative experience" (Nov 2013 - Jun 2016) Design and implementation of:
  • a GIS enabled database, storing spatially/temporally synchronized video and 3D object data.
  • HTTP REST based retrieval/storage services.
  • End-user web c-Space Portal.
  • Android modules for media content spatio-temporal tagging and upload.
• DSpace@HEAL (Feb 2012 - May 2016) Implemented the Digital Repositories (Libraries) for member Institutes of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link.
• CRIS (Sep 2013 - Jan 2015) Design and implementation of a web-based Current Research Information System (CRIS) for the National Documentation Centre, allowing read/write access to the CERIF model entities and work-flows.
• Reserve Officer, Special Forces Command, Hellenic Army (Aug 2003 - Feb 2005) Graduated top of the class from Reserve Officers Training Course. Served as Platoon Commander. Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant upon discharge from service. Certified Static Line Paratrooper.

EDUCATION

• National Technical University of Athens, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Engineering, GPA – 7,27

LANGUAGES

• Hellenic, Mother tongue, CEFR: C2
• English, Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (Grade: B, Year: 1992), CEFR: C2
• Spanish, DÉLE Diploma Superior de Español (Grade: 85/100, Year: 2003), CEFR: C2

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• [1]. Koulouris, A., Anagnostopoulos, A. (2010): “Theses e-submission tool at the National Technical University of Athens”,  OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital Library Perspectives, 26 (2), pp. 123-132.
• [2]. Anagnostopoulos, A., Trypitsidis, A., Papadakis, N.,Bonazountas, M., Kallidromitou, D. (2015): “Geotagging Software for media content based on EGNOS/GPS Location Based Service (LBS)”, FOSS4G Europe Como 2015, pp 353-362.
• [3]. Anagnostopoulos, A., Mitrou, N. (2016): “HEAL Institutional Repositories Horizontal Action”, HEAL Journal, first issue, second edition, pp. 90-100.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Reads a lot about the aviation, defense and military sector. Gets frequently whooped during boxing sparring sessions. When not getting punched at, he takes tango & jazz piano lessons with his wife. Last, but not least, spends time with baby daughter.

REFERENCES

References are available on request.