Hi, I'm Valentinos.
"Flexible and convenient" serves as a guiding principle for how the software should meet our client's needs. My primary focus is on cultivating a culture of collaboration and empowerment, inspiring talented teams to explore new possibilities and achieve excellence.
About Me
My name is Valentinos Papasavvas. I am sociable, energetic and friendly person. My interpersonal skills make me a good communicator, able to work well with others. I motivate and encourage people around me. I am self-aware and always seek to learn and grow. I am not scared of undertaking new responsibilities no matter the degree of difficulty. I am a critical thinker and a good researcher.
Currently, my main focus is on coaching teams and transforming startups to reach the next level. Day to day operations are:
- Allocate resources, manage expectations and performance, and drive team efficiencies
- Manage the use of technology stacks and ensures that team members grow their knowledge base, by utilizing Online courses and additional professional development
- Participate in the hiring and onboarding process
- Work with other business units to analyze trends and product needs for continues product improvement
- Enhance engineering efficiency by closely observing the team and identify opportunities
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to teammates
- Own development projects from conception through build, testing, implementation and support ensuring they meet business needs.
- Manage QA resources to ensure through testing of all code before release. Utilising automated testing where possible.
We give emphasis on delivering a feature or a final product on time along with quality code. Each person evaluates and reviews code of others to guarantee the best result.
In my free time, I am an active and athletic person seeking for action and adventure all the time. I always look for new technologies and like to play and develop my own projects, in order to expand my knowledge and keep up to date with the latest technologies. I tend to play with latest technologies and programming languages, which some of them can be found in my Github page.
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Experiences
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Head of Engineering
Intergo Telecom Ltd
09/2021 - Current
THE ROLE:
Leading and coaching remote teams on one of the biggest products of the company along with other smaller products the company has, ensuring the design and delivery of high quality, robust software solutions while adhering to predefined timescales and budgets. One of our key achievements has been the development of scalable, resilient, and performant systems that form the backbone of our telecommunications solutions. Central to this success is our strategic utilization of RabbitMQ as a message broker, enabling seamless communication and data exchange across our platform. Furthermore, our adoption of microservices architecture has revolutionized the way we design and deploy software, allowing us to build modular, independent services that can scale effortlessly to meet the demands of our growing customer base.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage and lead day to day operations, collaborating with the team leads, including scoping projects, resource management, assigning workload, training and development.
- Participate daily on potential and existing customer meetings discussing with their Engineering Team how our Products can be integrated and identify needs that we can implement to help more businesses
- Allocate resources, manage expectations and performance, and drive team efficiencies
- Manage the use of technology stacks and ensures that team members grow their knowledge base, by utilizing Online courses and additional professional development
- Participate in the hiring and onboarding process
- Work with other business units to analyze trends and product needs for continues product improvement
- Enhance engineering efficiency by closely observing the team and identify opportunities
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to teammates
- Identifying bottlenecks on the systems and try and find the cause through various APM tools
- Own development projects from conception through build, testing, implementation and support ensuring they meet business needs.
- Manage QA resources to ensure through testing of all code before release. Utilising automated testing where possible.
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Software Development Manager
Mindgeek
08/2019 - 09/2021
THE ROLE:
Leading and coaching teams on some of the biggest products of the company along with other internal products the company has, ensuring the design and delivery of high quality, robust software solutions while adhering to predefined timescales and budgets.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage and lead day to day operations, collaborating with the team leads, including scoping projects, resource management, assigning workload, training and development.
- Allocate resources, manage expectations and performance, and drive team efficiencies
- Manage the use of technology stacks and ensures that team members grow their knowledge base, by utilizing Online courses and additional professional development
- Participate in the hiring and onboarding process
- Work with other business units to analyze trends and product needs for continues product improvement
- Enhance engineering efficiency by closely observing the team and identify opportunities
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to teammates
- Own development projects from conception through build, testing, implementation and support ensuring they meet business needs.
- Manage QA resources to ensure through testing of all code before release. Utilising automated testing where possible.
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Lead Software Developer
Mindgeek
09/2017 - 08/2019
THE ROLE:
Responsible for coaching a team that deals with one of the biggest products of the company along with other internal products the company has, providing continuous feedback, suggesting potential improvements, working closing with the product department.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Setting a sustainable pace to deliver the completed, tested, integrated, production ready software
- Analyse processes in order to provide solutions
- Providing continues feedback to the team
- Making regular meetings with Seniors to improve the process of the team
- Making bi-weekly meetings with the team to discuss the Sprint process and what we can do better
- Dealing with issues that block the Sprint process
- Suggesting new technologies to improve and optimize the services a product uses
- Split the deliverable into stages and make small releases.
- Perform code review and detrermine recommendations for adaptation
- Pair programming to approach a problem with different opinions
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Senior PHP Developer
MindGeek
01/2017 - 09/2017
THE ROLE:
Responsible for maintaining the products the company has, collaborate with the team for potential improvements, involve in project management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Setting a sustainable pace to deliver the completed, tested, integrated, production ready software
- Analyse processes in order to provide solutions
- Team collaboration in Cyprus and Germany
- Split the deliverable into stages and make small releases.
- Perform code verification and detrermine recommendations for adaptation
- Pair programming to approach a problem with different opinions
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Senior PHP Programmer
Approved Food
08/2016 - 11/2016
THE ROLE:
Responsible for the internal picking system, collaborate with the team for potential improvements, involve in project management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Setting a sustainable pace to deliver the completed, tested, integrated, production ready software
- Split the current system into Microservices written in Laravel Framework that will consume an API,written in Lumen Framework
- Reviewing new technologies and making suggestions for possible improvements in the system
- Collaborate with the people in the warehouse to understand the needs of the system
- Split the deliverable into stages and make small releases.
- Undertake merge requests for code improvement
- Implement unit and integration tests
- Pair programming to approach a problem with different opinions
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Senior Web Developer - iOS Developer
Llama Digital
02/2014 - 08/2016
THE ROLE:
Collaborate with others to deliver quality code, involve in project management, provide guidance and imporevements in the process of delivering a feature/product to a client.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Setting a sustainable pace to deliver the most completed, tested, integrated, production ready software
- Stand up meetings to keep up to date with the process of each person in the team
- Suggest solutions to the team and get different opinions of how to achieve the best result
- Communicate with the clients and understand their requirements
- Split the deliverable into stages and show each stage to the client to see the progress and to get feedback.
- Use of Rubber Duck Debugging method
- Meet the deadlines inside the team by dividing and analysing each point of a project/feature
- Refactor whenever is needed to keep the project quality and security up to date
- Implement unit testing - TDD for the developers to be aware if they accidentally break a feature and BDD for the clients to understand what we tested for the deliverable based on the User Stories
- Pair programming to approach a problem with different opinions
- Develop and maintain the company's main mobile Application called Situate on iOS
- Work on various type of big projects of the company based on PHP MVC Framework
- Use merge requests for code review
- Suggest new technologies to be used based on client requirements
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Web Developer
Llama Digital
01/2012 - 02/2014
THE ROLE:
Started as Graduate Web Developer, I was involved of learning and developing in all CMS of the company. After that point, I was trained with PHP Zend Framework to collaborative with developer and project management teams to deliver quality development.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Pair with a team and work on big projects based on PHP Zend Framework
- Maintain and support various CMS that the company has (Drupal 6,7, MODx Evolution/Revolution, Magento E-commerce,Wordpress)
- Convert legacy code into a quality structure code
- Started using version control
Education
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MSc Database Professional - Sheffield Hallam University
01/2011 - 01/2012
- Databases & the Web, Data Warehousing, Industrial Expertise, IT Project Management Logical Database Development, Physical Database Design and Administration, Study Skills for Professionals, Web Application Design and Modelling
- MSc Thesis Title: “Investigation of Column-Based Databases Performance against Relational Databases”
- Final Year Project Grade: 76 / 100
- Grade: First Class Honours (73.2 / 100)
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BSc (Hons) Computer Science - University of Crete
09/2006 - 10/2010
- Year 1 Modules
- Introduction to Computer Science, Digital Design, Calculus I, Physics I, English I, Programming in C, Calculus II, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, English II.
- Year 2 Modules
- Data Structures, Probability Theory I, Object-Oriented Programming, Theory of Computation, English III, Logic, Applied Mathematics for Engineers, Computer Organization, Software Technology Laboratory, English IV
- Year 3 Modules
- Computer Networks, Languages and Compilers, Files and Databases, Operating Systems, Algorithms and Complexity.
- Year 4
- Final Year Project Title: “Design of Parallelization of the single-node Oracle/Berkeley Database through the use of a Distributed Coordination Service (Borealis)”
- Final Year Project Grade: 9 / 10
- Course Overall grade: 6.76 / 10
- Year 1 Modules
Skills
Languages
Hobbies
Awards
HackManchester 2012
10/2012
2012 HackManchester Companies challenge winner (with the Llama Squad) winning the Best Company Award for our Automate Time Tracker web application
HackManchester 2015 Award - Create the best use of beacons for the Rise community
10/2015
2015 HackManchester won the The Barclays/Rise Challenge - Create the best use of beacons for the Rise community. On https://youtu.be/YvBy7DBaesk?t=1247 we are on the final 3 for rentalcars.com competition and on https://youtu.be/YvBy7DBaesk?t=2188 we are again on final 3 for Rise Challenge and win the big prizes.
Training Certificate for Zend Framework: Fundamentals Course
07/2013
Successful completion of the training of Zend Framework: Fundamentals Course. View the Zend Certificate here.
Training certificate for iOS iPhone & iPad Apps Development
11/2013
Successful completion of the training of iOS iPhone & iPad Apps Development. View the iOS Certificate here.