Romanos Tsouroplis
Full Stack Engineer / Consultant
Mediahuis is one of the leading media groups in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 10 million people read the 40+ national and regional news brands every day, both online and through the print newspaper. The news brands inform, interpret and inspire 24/7 via all possible platforms. Some of the most well-known are: Telegraaf, Gazet van Antwerpen, Haarlem's Dagblad, Autovisie, Irish Independent, De Limburger, Aachener Zeitung and many more which can be found here: Mediahuis Brands
Refactored Mediahuis’ main subscription shop, transforming it into a generic, performant, scalable solution for all our international brands. This initiative enhanced system flexibility, reduced code duplication, and significantly improved maintainability. I provided technical direction and mentorship to development teams, ensuring alignment with best practices in coding standards, architecture, and operational workflows. Designed and implemented robust system architectures, connecting multiple offerings across countries. Actively participated in hiring processes, conducting interviews and evaluations for a variety of IT-related roles to build high-performing teams.
Artwishlist (now called Facture) unifies the art market by facilitating dealers, advisors & collectors matchmaking through its Introductions Platform. It relies on the Provenance Database which contains details for over 10 million artworks which can be researched online or through Glass, Artwishlist's chat bot image recognition service.
Working as a CTO in a small-scale startup means wearing many hats. Apart from managing the tech team & shaping the product roadmap alongside the stakeholders, part of the job was to delve deep into back/front-end, scripting & devops, using a wide range of tools, languages & frameworks. Taking critical decisions at hand resulted in a failsafe tech system design based on a microservices architecture.
myTomorrows has a mission to provide every patient with earlier and better access to all possible treatment options in development, while enabling pharmaceutical companies to partner with patients in order to facilitate clinical research.
In the role of Full Stack Engineer & Consultant I identified issues, provided recommendations and implemented solutions in-time while also analysed potential bottlenecks and threats in order to create a future-proof platform.
Mobiquity (Acquired by Hexaware) is a global digital consultancy which blends strategy, creativity & engineering in order to guide the world’s leading brands understand & apply with technology in meaningful way. Notable clients are Bayer, Nestle, LeasePlan, Amazon, kpn, BPI, Philips, Rabobank, Novartis.
As a Front-End Lead I took initiatives to improve the organisation's workflow. Participated in interviews & guided junior front-enders to develop their skills. Worked in international, agile & multidisciplinary teams towards providing tailored high quality digital solutions.
PeoplePerHour is the UK's leading marketplace for people to become financially & professionally independent through freelancing.
As a Back-end Engineer debugging, maintenance and creating new features in PHP and MySQL were my duties for the PeoplePerHour platform.
EPU is a scientific unit which carries out R&D services on a wide range of complex business, societal & technical issues. EPU-NTUA provisions the training of under/post-graduate engineers, runs extensive research & facilitates the authoring of scientific papers. It has partnered with major Greek, European & international organisations.
In the position of Researcher & Engineer I started a PhD & published papers regarding the API interconnectivity through a specification. Worked for the public sector in Greece & EU programmes alongside European universities & large companies, under tight deadlines.