Dimitrios Michalakos
Director Of Application Engineering
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolDimitrios Michalakos is a seasoned software leader and Director of Application Engineering with 14+ years of professional experience and a track record of building teams and systems since 2005. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise—currently focused on React, TypeScript and Node.js—with deep knowledge of diverse databases and distributed system design for security and scalability. He has led engineering efforts at Causaly and VisionMobile, managed products that analyze mobile ecosystems, and ran a 200-screen digital signage project in London early in his career. Dimitrios also founded a startup in 2017, a formative failure that sharpened his product and managerial judgment. Based in Athens, he pairs an MSc in Network-centric Systems with practical experience shipping both infrastructure and consumer-facing web applications. He prefers simple, elegant solutions—summed up by his motto “truth lies in simplicity.”
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Network-centric Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Network-centric Systems at University of Piraeus
English, Greek
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Github Skills (110)
npm-package10
http-client10
heroku10
javascript10
browser10
algorithm10
validation-error10
macos10
nodejs10
buildpack10
algorithms10
nextjs10
user-management10
typescript-types10
data-structures10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
causaly/zod-validation-error
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Wrap zod validation errors in user-friendly readable messages
Contributions:1 release, 497 reviews, 29 commits in 3 months
validation-errorzod
causaly/zod-non-empty-array
Apr 2023 - Aug 2025
Make zod compatible with fp-ts NonEmptyArray
Contributions:16 reviews, 15 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 4 months
fp-tszod
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