SOC 2 Type 2
I led Lynx Educate through its SOC 2 Type 2 audit and ISO 27001 certification, owning the controls, logging and policies.
Selected work across healthcare, marketplaces, fintech and SaaS. I take products from the early build to live systems with users, payments and real traffic.
Security, teams, payments and search. The parts that had to work outside the demo.
I led Lynx Educate through its SOC 2 Type 2 audit and ISO 27001 certification, owning the controls, logging and policies.
Collaborate Healthcare, which I co-founded and built as first engineer, now holds more than 250,000 patient records across 650 organisations, with IQVIA among its clients.
HotelData, my own invoicing SaaS for Greek hotels, has over 20 paying hotels and 46,000 invoices issued.
I built search and assistant flows over hundreds of thousands of document sections for HTA-Hive.
Teams of different sizes, real ownership and products that had to survive contact with users.
Fractional CTO & Founding Engineer · Part-time
I built the Rails and Hotwire platform for a staff training marketplace, then led it through its SOC 2 Type 2 audit and ISO 27001 certification.
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer · Project-based
I built the production RAG and semantic search behind an AI research assistant for pharma, over hundreds of thousands of document sections, across Rails, FastAPI and Angular.
Senior Rails Engineer · Project-based
Back as a contractor on the platform I co-founded and its sister product Health4Crew, which runs PEME exams for 14 shipping companies through 117 clinics. DNA and biomarker reports, email ticketing, AI case summaries on Amazon Bedrock and Stripe billing.
Sole Engineer · Part-time
I am the only engineer on a live marketplace for independent creators in Greece and Cyprus, with thousands of orders a year, from features and releases to production fixes.
Technical Lead & Rails Engineer · Project-based
I built the management platform of a Greek sports academy with one other engineer, from thousands of athletes, teams and attendance to fees and receipts. A second club runs on it too.
Fractional CTO & Senior Backend Engineer · Part-time
Fractional CTO and the only backend engineer at a real estate marketplace that raised about €3M and was later acquired. I owned the Rails API, AWS and deployments and built the AI price estimator.
Fractional CTO · Part-time
I owned the Rails API, operations, CI/CD and Stripe payments for a sports venue booking app and moved it off Heroku onto Kamal with GitHub Actions deploys.
Senior Rails Engineer · Project-based
I built Property Invest, a property auction investment marketplace, with one other engineer for a Greek proptech that raised a €5.5M Series A led by Eurobank.
Ruby on Rails Developer · Contract
I delivered workflow automation for approval and access rules at a UN agency and built dynamic role-based access control for its internal applications.
Ruby Developer · Contract
I joined on a short contract as the only Ruby developer on a legacy API and helped scale it ahead of Black Friday.
Co-Founder & Senior Rails Engineer
I built and launched the chronic-care product as first engineer, grew the engineering team to six and led the React Native apps. It now serves 650 organisations with more than 250,000 patient records and 500,000 appointments, including the largest oncology hospital in Greece, with IQVIA as a client.
Web and Ruby on Rails Developer
Rails work at Denteo, Nimber, AtNet, VisionMobile, CLONE SYSTEMS and Cluey plus freelance projects, after a start in 2006 with WordPress, Joomla and PHP.
Small products are how I try ideas, learn new tools and keep shipping.
Automated Bitcoin DCA on Binance with restricted API keys, execution history and simulations.
dcaloop.com ↗
AI practice for high-stakes conversations.
pressuretalks.com ↗
A calmer way to discover scientific papers worth reading.
dailyacademia.com ↗
Hotel invoicing SaaS with over 20 paying hotels.
hoteldata.gr ↗
Shared movie discovery for groups that cannot pick what to watch.
couchpotatoes.tsirko.com ↗
A cross-platform astronomy quiz that started as a mobile development experiment.
astroquiz.tsirko.com ↗I work with teams of every size that need backend, mobile, product thinking and practical AI work to reach production.
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