Professional Profile

Curriculum
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Email nikiforos@live.co.uk
LinkedIn Maximos Nikiforakis
GitHub Maxcode123

Experience

3/2026 –
present

Software Engineer

Aurion · Athens

  • Building the accounting software that makes things easy.
Python SQL Redis AWS
12/2024 –
2/2026

Backend Software Engineer

Dialectica · Athens

  • Built an AI chatbot system for expert interviewing.
  • Developed backend testing features to make testing easier.
  • Created CLI tools for quicker local development.
Hanami Ruby on Rails Go SQL
10/2023 –
11/2024

Backend Software Engineer

Skroutz · Athens

  • Integrated new 3rd-party courier services with core domain.
  • Extended backend delivery service to handle launch in new countries (RO).
Ruby on Rails SQL Mongo Redis Kafka
1/2021 –
8/2023

Associate Software Engineer

The Signal Group · Athens

  • Designed, developed and maintained a series of microservices related to shipping market insights.
  • Contributed to some of the company's internal tools as a maintainer of a Python library.
  • Conducted analysis on how shipping market data can be leveraged to optimize commercial performance.
Python SQL Mongo Redis
6/2020 –
12/2020

Research Assistant

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas · Thessaloniki

  • Worked at the Lab of Environmental Fuels and Hydrocarbons on creating simulation models for the Fluid Catalytic Cracking process.
MATLAB Excel VBA

Education

2014 – 2019

Master of Engineering (M.Eng) - Chemical Engineering

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Grade: 8.53 (Honours)