ABOUT ME

WHO AM I?

I have been working with web technologies for over 10 years. My past positions range from small local startup to companies with thousands of employess. I have filled several different kinds of roles, including senior development, team leading, consulting and even technical presales.

Even though I effectively work on both the frontend and the backend, I have a soft spot in my heart for coding complex UIs. I am deeply interested in CSS architectures, UI components and living styleguides.

EXPERT IN

Javascript, CSS, HTML, NodeJS, ES6.

HTML & CSS

95%

JAVASCRIPT

85%

NODEJS

80%

TOOLS (Git, Preprocessors, Task Runners, Frameworks)

90%

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Italy

Milan

CODEMOTION

The first fifteen lives of a software engineer.

Greece

Thessaloniki

DEVit

The future of responsive web design: web component queries.

Croatia

Zagreb

WEBCAMPzg

Responsive Web Components - A glimpse at the future.

CURRENT POSITION

2016-Present

WORKDAY

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Workday, Inc. is a cloud-based financial management and human capital management software vendor. It was founded by David Duffield, the founder and former CEO of the ERP company PeopleSoft, and former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri.

I joined Workday on July of 2016, when a startup called Zaption I was working for at that time got acquired by Workday, and the developer team moved over.

At Workday, I am focusing on the Learning Platform and implementing Muse, a video player that allows interactions with the user.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

July 2016 - Present

Working as a senior engineer on Workday's interactive video platform called Muse.

ES6, Typescript, NodeJS, KnockoutJS, BEM, SASS, Gulp, Git

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

June 2015 - July 2016

Adding interactive tools on top of video that engage learners and deepen understanding. Working with a vast array of video providers, including Youtube, Vimeo, Kaltura and more.

ES6, Typescript, NodeJS, KnockoutJS, BEM, SASS, Gulp, Git

FRONTEND ARCHITECT

October 2014 - May 2015

Defining and setting up frontend architecture for the e-commerce platform of Bestseller. Setting up best practices, choosing and setting up the proper tooling and preparing the frontend team for the continuous delivery vision of the company.

DemandWare, BEM, SASS, RequireJS, Grunt, Bower, Bitbucket

PRINCIPAL FRONTEND CONSULTANT

October 2012 - October 2014

Collaborate with strategic clients in the design, development and evolution of mission critical web applications. Implement complex and modern web applications based on Object Oriented architecture and applying solid programming patterns without loosing the creativity aspect of the work in hand. Wide variety of work including Ajax training and best practices consulting, frontend technical design, and application development on high quality standards.

JS, Web Components, Angular, Maven/Java, SVN

LEAD FRONTEND ENGINEER

September 2011 - October 2012

Managing the frontend development team. Defining best practices and guidelines for frontend. Code reviewing. Developing frontend solutions for critical parts of the application.

JS, CSS, PHP, Yii framework, jQuery, Git

SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

January 2010 - September 2011

Developing complex and high traffic websites. Responsible both for frontend and backend solutions. Providing development solutions and applying innovative techniques.

JS, CSS, PHP, Symphony, jQuery, SVN

WEB DEVELOPER

January 2008 - January 2010

Development of websites and web applications. Backend and frontend implementation.

JS, CSS, PHP, MVC, jQuery, PrototypeJS, SVN

Member of the organizing commitee of DEVit 2017



CONTACT ADDRESS

Thessaloniki, Greece

zinas.nikos@gmail.com