George Mermigkas

George Mermigkas

$500/hr
JavaScript Engineer
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Age:
47 years old
Location:
Pireas, Attiki, Greece
Experience:
15 years
Georgios Mermigkas Birth: July 20, 1978 Marital Status: Single Profile Full Stack JavaScript Engineer with 15 years experience from medium to large production systems in a diverse area of domains such as the news industry, classified ads, real estate, betting / sports and Lottery. Great track record in rebranding / re-engineering web applications from scratch while delivering full stateful applications based on web technologies such as sports games and mobile apps in the lottery industry. Solid Experience on developing Mobile Applications using frontend libraries such as Ionic and React Native. Good understanding of platform native features (with focus on iOS) and ability to develop using UIKit and SwiftUI. Proven experience in guiding medium to large frontend teams in delivering new applications in terms of software management, development methodologies, tooling, design patterns, testing methodologies, codebase distribution, state management, backend API integration and performance strategies. Excellent coaching and mentoring skills and ability to simplify. Management / Architecture / Soft Skills - Analysis and assessment for new technologies / frameworks for new projects - Design of architecture for new projects based on Developer Skills, product technical needs, evaluation of Tech Licenses involved, rapid development promotion - Provide and document guidelines for new projects / products such as code review guidelines, development guidelines and documentation in Confluence - Design development workflows so that optimum communication between different streams is achieved and communication overheads are reduced to a minimum - Help isolate areas of development where reusability can be promoted by isolating into separate modules - Provide consulting and debugging sessions so that FrontEnd / Backend performance is properly monitored and evaluated 2 Technical Skills ● Client Frameworks​: Angular, React / Redux, React Native, Vue.js, GraphQL (Apollo Client) ● Mobile Platforms: ​iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), React Native ● ● ● ● ● ● Backend Libraries: ​NodeJS (Express, Koa, NestJS), GraphQL (Apollo Server) Virtualization: ​Docker, Microservice oriented design Languages: ​JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, TypeScript Database Servers: ​MS SQL, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL Development Methodologies: ​Agile - Scrum / KanBan, Waterfall Accessibility / Environments: ​i18n, SEO, Babel, Progressive Web Apps, Graceful Degradation, Semantic Web ● ● Tooling: ​webpack, npm, grunt, gulp, ESLint, Prettier, Facebook Flow Testing: ​Karma, Protractor, Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, Sinon Employment History Sept. 2015 - PRESENT Camelot Lottery Solutions, New Cavendish Street, London​ - ​FrontEnd Architect - Member of the Architecture Board - Design and Document new solutions, setup teams and implement setup and initiate sprint zero. - Analysis of third party integrations in terms of design, security and BCI compliance - Tactical and Strategic mindset depending on the case and the deliverable requirements - Re-engineering of HTML5 based games on mobile platforms to meet Apple Guidelines - Design and lead a team to develop a Public API Integration layer using NodeJS for Mobile Apps. - Developed libraries on react-native Adobe CMS Integration. - Technical Lead in 3 teams, 1 React Native team (6 devs, 2 QA, 1 SET) and 2 WebApp teams (React, VueJS) (15 devs, 4 QAs, 2 SET) Sept. 2014 - Sept. 2015 EnterSoft S.A, N. Faliro, Athens​- ​JavaScript Engineer / Web Integration Expert ● Built an AngularJS UI Framework to port an existing .NET based ERP / CRM UI to the Web. ● Developed the necessary JavaScript Integration Layer to communicate with the existing .NET backend system. Oct. 2013 - Sept. 2014 ArenaCube, Alimos, Athens ​- J ​ avaScript Engineer ● Developed the frontend for a new innovating Sports Betting Real Time game. Core technologies included Angular with SignalR integration. Sept. 2012 - Oct. 2013 3 Copelouzos Group, Marousi, Athens ​- F ​ rontEnd Technical Lead ● Frontend Lead in a team of 8 PHP full stack developers ● Developed custom frontend architecture to fit the existing PHP-based component development framework Apr. 2012 - Sept. 2012 PeoplePerHour.com, Keramikos, Athens ​- ​Senior FrontEnd Developer ● Active development role in a Scrum based environment, developing frontend code for www.peopleperhout.com v2 launch. Jul. 2010 - Apr. 2012 Chrissi Efkairia XE.gr, Neos Kosmos, Athens ​- ​Senior FrontEnd Developer ● ● Major role in the company’s 2010 rebranding strategy in planning out and developing all frontend for the ​www.xe.gr​ website in Jobs Listings, Real Estate and Small Ads verticals. Developed the necessary frontend to integrate with the company’s Java and Perl based backend systems to support the internal ad-taking CMS Nov. 2005 - Jul. 2010 Naftemporiki, Athens ​- F ​ ull Stack Developer ● Full Stack Development for ​www.naftemporiki.gr​ main and satellite sites as well as internal CMS and news taking systems. Technologies included an ASP (vbscript) Server Side Library, MS SQL Server, XML data exchange, HTML / CSS and JavaScript. Sept. 2004 - Nov. 2005 Advanced Telecom Systems, Athens ​- ​VoIP Engineer ● Management, configuration and development of software that parses CDR records for a VoIP datacenter. Education 1999 - 2001 Brunel University London, London UK​ - ​MSc in Data Communication 1996 - 1999 King’s College London, University of London, London UK​ -​ BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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