Hello. My name is Byron. I’ve been alive for approximately and I reside in Athens, Greece. I’ll try to answer any questions I imagine you could have, but feel free to contact me for more info.
Who I am:
I always liked fixing stuff. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” was never my moto. When I was younger, I liked automation and electronics – you can see some free-time projects here (it’s in Greek) – and I was good at setting up PC rigs and maintaining them. I was also good at finding information. When I finished high school, university was the next natural step. I chose to study at NTUA ECE school in Athens, since it was what I imagined as closest to “building robots and stuff”. Part of it turned out to be a lot more boring than I thought, so the chances of me finishing my studies there are being diminished by the second – sorry mom, a (hu)man’s gotta do what a (hu)man wants to do :P. I speak Greek (native), English (quite fluently) and I can understand German – perhaps even communicate, if under extreme circumstances (there exists a paper stating I have a B1 certificate in German, but don’t believe it if you see it). I like music, precision driving, go-karting, TV series and movies – preferably at the theater, but home is good enough.
Not Work:
Work:
My “professional” life caught me doing what I was quite good at, at the time (around late 2011): Home and small-business hardware and network infrastructure setup and maintenance. Later on I was, by chance, called in to assist in a hacked-website situation, where the “client” was an animal welfare organization called Stray-Life. That’s when I got my first taste of web development.
I gained some experience with Joomla, and took on a few Joomla web projects in the following months. About a year later (around March 2013) I started working for Terrabook, as a full stack web developer and IT administrator (that’s a very professional-sounding title for “the go-to person about everything PC-related”), and that’s when I moved from Joomla to WordPress. Since Terrabook was a startup-like effort, I had the chance to get my hands on a wide variety of interesting stuff (server setup, CRMs, VoIP PBXs, integrations and automations). In the following months I completed a few freelance projects using WordPress.
Having dived into the web-world I started missing my old loves (electronics/automation), so then came Alyseum, a manufacturer of electronic musical instrument equipment, who found me through a freelancer.com profile I had setup while playing around. Willi (the founder of Alyseum) and I have been collaborating on some of his products since then. He designs the hardware and I program the microcontrollers that implement the functionality (I will hopefully convince him to let me in on the HW part also, someday).
I also helped in the setup and maintenance of the technical infrastructure of the N.T.U.A Academic Open Courses initiative. Web servers (nginx, apache), application servers (tomcat), media servers (wowza), cmss (drupal, wp), live/vod media streaming (from everywhere (IP cameras, desktops, e.t.c.) to media servers, from media servers to everywhere – youtube included), web automation scripts (ruby). That came up due to my experience from voluntarily recording course lectures during my studies at N.T.U.A., so they could be available online, for students unable to participate, or for reviewing when studying (oh and this project (Greek again) was also a side effect of the lecture-recordings effort).
I’ve also worked on a rather big Drupal project, for about a year, starting in the summer of 2015, in a startup I can tell you no more about (007 stuff). At the end of 2015 I was chosen by the team behind HopIn, to work with them in developing their awesome concept/product.
I’ve been working as a software/hardware engineer at Artime, since mid-2016.
Work in keywords:
- Engineering
- VPSs (Debian-based distributions with a preference to Ubuntu LTS, CentOS, Windows Server)
- CMSs (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Grav) and phpBB
- Server management tools (IspConfig, ZPanel, Webmin, WHM/cPanel, Plesk)
- Web Servers (NGINX, Apache, IIS)
- Email Servers (dovecot, postfix, exim)
- VoIP PBXs (Asterisk*, FreePBX, PIAF)
- CRMs (Vtiger, SugarCRM, SuiteCRM)
- Media Servers (wowza)
- Customizations/Integrations (you name it)
- Javascript (vanilla, React.js, React Native, Node.js, Express.js, Meteor.js)
- PHP
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- C (AVR and PIC chips)
- Ruby (mechanize/nokogiri web parsers)
- Python
- Raspberry Pi
- Arduino
- MIDI
- Custom electronic circuits/controllers
- Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere – Sony Vegas
Have an interesting project/task in mind, or even better, a problem that needs a solution? Get in touch.
The information contained in this page should be regarded as valid until 25/10/2022.