The early years

I studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of West Attica, then did a Masters in Software Development and AI at the University of Piraeus. While still a student I interned at Netcompany (Intrasoft at the time) as an electrical engineer, working on Rural Connect. First time I got to build something real.

After that, banking and consulting at EY and Fiserv. Big organizations, deliberate processes. I learned how decisions actually get made at scale, and how long it takes to ship something when everyone has a say. Valuable, but not where I wanted to stay.

Finding my stride

So I made the move into startups. Workable is where things clicked. I stayed long enough to own and rebuild the core ATS experience, the part thousands of recruiters use every day. That's where I got what it means to really care about a product, to fight for the details that users actually notice.

The startup ride

Then Uizard, as the 6th engineer. That one was different. I came in as a full-stack engineer, grew into the Growth Tech Lead role, and lived through the whole thing: the pivots, the pressure, and the wins. One of the biggest was shipping Autodesigner, an AI feature that turns text prompts into UI designs. It blew up on Product Hunt and became one of the defining moments of the company. Not long after, we were acquired by Miro. Hard to summarize. Worth every bit of it.

Going independent

After Miro, I went independent. Today I work as a Product Engineer, Growth Advisor, and Fractional CTO. Mostly helping startups work out their tech and product direction. Over the years that's brought me to Perspective, Futurae, Multiplier Holdings, Materia Labs, and others, working on product, growth, and AI. At Materia Labs I led InstaPharm, an AI product built to improve how pharmacies operate and how people with long-term health conditions manage their care.

Along the way I tried building my own things too. Coyova was a travel marketplace. snapcar.gr was a car leasing platform. Neither is active now, but both were worth doing.

Right now I co-run Astrocode, a software agency that helps companies and startups move faster with AI. We work on EU-funded projects, build internal tools, and help teams ship more without growing the team.

On top of that, I angel invest in early-stage AI startups. Dikaio.ai is one I'm particularly excited about.

What keeps me going

Curiosity, mostly. I like figuring out how things work, whether that's a new technology, a business model, or a team that's somehow shipping faster than it should be. That part hasn't changed since I started.

The other thing is people, and honestly that's the bigger half. The hard parts of the projects I remember were rarely technical. More often it was a room of five or six people who all wanted the same outcome, stuck for weeks, because everyone was carrying a worry nobody had said out loud yet.

Chris Voss has a name for the way out of that: tactical empathy. It sounds colder than it is. It mostly means getting curious about the person in front of you before you get attached to being right. I don't always manage it. But the teams I've loved working with were never the ones that agreed the most. They were the ones where you could say the uncomfortable thing out loud and nobody took it personally.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

And it was never really about the destination. Morgan Housel writes that the real luxury isn't money, it's getting to choose what you spend your days on and who you spend them with. That second part is the one I keep coming back to. Launches blur together after a while. What I remember is a specific night with a specific person, both of us tired, laughing at something completely broken, somehow sure we'd have it working by morning.

So when I start working with a new team, that's the part I pay attention to. Good people, learning from each other, enjoying the thing while we build it. The rest usually follows.