Georgios Retsinas
Staff Software Architect at Unify
Athens Metropolitan Area Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorgios Retsinas is a Staff Software Architect based in Athens with 11 years of experience specializing in Linux, system programming, and carrier-grade telephony platforms. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to architecture roles at Unify and Mitel, delivering reliable platform components ranging from kernel modules to networking and database middleware. Georgios contributes to open source—improving cross-platform tools like the mucommander file manager by enhancing viewers and compressed-archive handling—which reflects his attention to low-level correctness and user-facing details. His background includes 24/7 maritime communications support where he automated networking tasks in Python, a practical experience that informs his systems-first approach to reliability and observability. Colleagues value him for blending deep systems knowledge with pragmatic automation and a steady focus on operational robustness.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering at University of Patras
English, Greek
Github Skills (7)
javas10
archiver10
file-management10
archiving10
archives10
java10
text-editor8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mucommander/mucommander
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Georgios primarily contributed to improving the file manager's core functionalities, focusing on fixing selection logic within viewers and editors and enhancing text viewer features. They addressed issues related to line number display and padding. Additionally, the user implemented support for the XZ file format and made enhancements to the handling of compressed archives.
file-manager
elemongw/vscode
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiontypescriptvisual-studio
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