About
Principal Software Engineer and Systems Architect with 20 years of experience architecting, delivering and evolving enterprise-scale platforms across e-commerce, logistics, fulfilment, inventory, and financial domains, combining hands-on architecture and delivery with senior technical and people leadership across business-critical platforms.
Specialised in leading the modernisation and architectural transformation of business-critical platforms under live operational constraints, balancing technical change, operational continuity, and long-term maintainability.
Proven track record of owning cross-system architecture, building resilient operational platforms, and resolving high-impact business risks through pragmatic, observable, and scalable engineering.
Operates at the intersection of engineering, operations, and business, combining technical and people leadership with close collaboration across engineering teams and with senior stakeholders in operational and commercial functions to translate complex business needs into pragmatic, reliable, and scalable technical solutions.
Incorporates AI-assisted software engineering where it adds value, helping accelerate solution design, improve engineering productivity, and enhance software quality while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals and sound architectural judgement.
Key Impact
Platform Ownership
- Architected, delivered and evolved the central Order Management System (OMS), acting as the operational coordination layer across inventory, purchasing, fulfilment, warehouse, storefront, and financial systems.
Transformation
- Led architectural transformation and modernisation of legacy systems and business-critical workflows.
- Rebuilt and repurposed the core Warehouse Management System (WMS) from PHP 5.6 to PHP 8.4.
Engineering Leadership
- Provided cross-team technical leadership and engineering direction across business-critical platform initiatives, aligning engineers and Tech Leads around architectural decisions, technical approaches and delivery.
Operational
- Prevented critical operational and financial risks across business-critical workflows.
- Designed and delivered resilient operational infrastructure incorporating queue orchestration, automated recovery, observability, auditability, and fault-tolerant workflow execution across critical business systems.
Technical
- Optimised legacy data models and system-level algorithms, significantly improving performance, efficiency, and scalability across high-volume transactional systems.
- Designed and implemented scalable integration architecture enabling reliable synchronisation and data interchange across storefront, warehouse, ERP, and financial platforms.
Engineering Standards & AI
- Established AI-assisted development standards, system-specific engineering blueprints, and architectural reference frameworks across multiple enterprise platforms.
Professional Experience
For complete responsibilities and achievements, see the full CV
May 2023 - Jun 2026
Senior Lead Software Engineer (Principal Engineer scope)
BrandAlley - London, UK
Served as the principal technical authority across interconnected business systems, providing technical and people leadership while leading architectural transformation of warehouse, fulfilment, order management and financial platforms. Architected and evolved the central Order Management System and its cross-system integrations, introduced AI-assisted engineering practices, and improved operational resilience across business-critical workflows.
Oct 2021 - Apr 2023
Lead Software Engineer
Internet Fusion Group - London, UK
Led a cross-functional team of 7 across engineering, QA and product responsible for bespoke warehouse logistics platforms supporting order management, inventory and financial workflows. Acted as technical owner of the central WMS while multiple engineering teams delivered concurrent changes, coordinating technical dependencies, overlapping development and releases across team boundaries to maintain platform stability. Improved platform reliability, performance, and maintainability through architectural modernisation, database optimisation, and the establishment of structured engineering practices.
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Lead Software Engineer
3ev (3rd Eye Vision) - Hove, UK
Led the technical design and delivery of backend capabilities across multiple client platforms, working across a TYPO3 legacy monolith alongside separate legacy Laravel applications and API services supporting booking and third-party integrations. Led platform modernisation, major PHP/Laravel upgrades, observability and reconciliation capabilities, cloud migration, and the design and development of a new integration service, taking projects from conception and solution design through successful production delivery.
Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Tillo - Hove, UK
Designed and evolved transaction APIs and integrations supporting financial transaction processing and gift card services. Developed secure integration workflows, reconciliation and validation mechanisms, and third-party integrations with external partners and enterprise systems including SAP, contributing to the evolution of the platform from an early-stage product to a stable production system supporting increasing transaction volumes.
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Senior Software Engineer
22PointSix - Burgess Hill, UK
Delivered backend applications and REST APIs across multiple client projects, combining PHP/Symfony application development with responsibility for production infrastructure, maintenance, technical documentation, and ongoing platform improvements.
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
Senior Full-Stack Web Developer
Mosaic Digital - Brighton, UK
Developed and delivered bespoke web applications and CMS platforms across a diverse portfolio of client projects, designing reusable backend components while working across application development, infrastructure, testing, deployment, and ongoing production support. Contributed to the development of the agency’s Drupal 7-based CMS platform.
Jul 2012 - Jan 2013
Freelance Software Engineer
Thessaloniki, Greece
Jul 2009 - Jun 2012
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Tera Media - London, UK & Athens, Greece
Oct 2006 - Jul 2009
Freelance Software Engineer
Thessaloniki, Greece
Apr 2006 - Oct 2006
Software Engineer (BSc Internship)
Alexander Technological Educational Institute, Greece
Mar 2004 - Apr 2006
Freelance Software Engineer
Thessaloniki, Greece
Military Service
Sept 2011 - Jul 2012
Second Lieutenant (Reserve) - Head of the Research and Informatics Office
88 Military Command, Hellenic Army - Lemnos, Greece
Completed military service as a Reserve Second Lieutenant in the Hellenic Army, serving as Head of the Research and Informatics Office at the 88 Military Command on the island of Lemnos. Led a technical team responsible for maintaining IT infrastructure across multiple military units while serving as Brigade Communications Officer on a rotating basis.
Technical Expertise
Architecture & Systems
Distributed systems, modular and monolithic architectures, system design
Synchronous/asynchronous integrations, REST APIs, queue-based processing
Resilient operational infrastructure, queue orchestration, resilience patterns, fallback mechanisms
Domain & Platforms
WMS, OMS, fulfilment, inventory, logistics, financial systems, payment processing
ERP (Business Central, SAP), e-commerce platforms (Magento), third-party API integrations
Engineering Leadership
Technical leadership, people leadership and mentoring, engineering standards
Architectural decision-making and facilitation, cross-functional stakeholder alignment
Modernisation under live operational constraints, incremental delivery
Backend & Web
PHP (4 - 8.4), Laravel (4.2 - 13), Symfony, Lumen, Zend
Filament, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Jekyll, Liquid
Data & Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Redis, Memcached
High-volume transactional systems, data modelling, performance optimisation
Infrastructure & DevOps
AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), DigitalOcean, Docker, Linux, Bash
CI/CD, deployment workflows, system observability
Engineering Practices
Non-functional requirements: reliability & availability, performance & scalability, resilience & recoverability, data integrity & consistency
Observability, auditability & traceability
Code quality, testing strategies, secure development practices
AI-Assisted Engineering
AI-assisted software engineering, LLM-assisted architecture and implementation
System-specific engineering standards, architectural documentation and structured development workflows
Claude, Codex, ChatGPT
Education
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MSc Design and Digital Media
University of Edinburgh, UK
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BSc Informatics Engineering (Computer Science)
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Reserve Infantry Officers Academy
Signal Corps & Research and Informatics Corps
Hellenic Armed Forces, Greece
Professional Development
Attended industry conferences including Laravel London, AWS London, and UX Brighton.
Languages
- English (Fluent)
- Greek (Native)