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    "name": "Nick Pappas",
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    "url": "https://thegreek.dev/",
    "summary": "Fullstack and platform engineer with four years of experience building and operating Python/FastAPI services, geospatial platforms and data pipelines. I own delivery from API design through containerised deployment and production operation, and I have integrated complex systems across organisations for EU-funded programmes.",
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      "countryCode": "GR"
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      "name": "Planetek Hellas (D-Orbit Group)",
      "position": "Software & Integration Platform Engineer",
      "location": "Athens",
      "startDate": "2022-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Designed, built and operate the backend and geospatial infrastructure for FEDERATES (European Defence Fund), integrating satellite-data services with distributed simulation systems across partner organisations. Also serve as Product Owner.",
        "Built the organisation's HLA/RTI distributed-simulation capability from the ground up, using Pitch pRTI and RPR-FOM; established tooling and reference implementations reused across projects.",
        "Designed and operate containerised microservices with Docker and Traefik, centralised identity and SSO through Keycloak, and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates.",
        "Built and operate satellite-imagery processing pipelines, from ingestion to STAC-catalogued products served through a FastAPI-based geospatial platform using eoAPI, COG and pgSTAC.",
        "Delivered a cross-organisation IPsec VPN for secure data exchange between partner sites.",
        "Contribute backend, integration and production-operations engineering to DECISMAR, AXIS2 / HELEO, EOAfrica and SeaiGrass; mentor junior engineers on backend development, containerisation and CI/CD."
      ]
    }
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  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "The American College of Greece (Deree)",
      "area": "Information Systems (Software Engineering major)",
      "studyType": "MSc (Coursework completed; thesis pending)",
      "courses": []
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      "keywords": [
        "Python (primary)",
        "TypeScript / JavaScript",
        "SQL",
        "Bash"
      ]
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      "name": "Backend & web",
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        "FastAPI",
        "async Python",
        "REST APIs",
        "React",
        "Leaflet",
        "PostgreSQL / PostGIS"
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      "keywords": [
        "eoAPI",
        "STAC",
        "Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG)",
        "pgSTAC",
        "GeoServer",
        "GDAL / rasterio"
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      "keywords": [
        "Docker / Compose",
        "Traefik",
        "Keycloak",
        "Azure DevOps CI/CD",
        "Git",
        "Linux",
        "Self-hosted operations and monitoring",
        "Kubernetes (foundational)"
      ]
    },
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      "name": "Quality",
      "keywords": [
        "Automated testing",
        "SonarQube",
        "Ruff",
        "Code review",
        "Mentoring"
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    {
      "name": "Integration",
      "keywords": [
        "Distributed simulation (HLA/RTI)",
        "Cross-organisation systems integration",
        "Satellite processing pipelines"
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  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Greek",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Full professional / C2 (Cambridge)"
    }
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  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Self-hosted engineering infrastructure",
      "description": "Built and operate a personal homelab with Docker and Traefik, GitLab CE and self-managed CI runners, Tailscale networking and automated monitoring."
    },
    {
      "name": "pappanick/demos",
      "url": "https://github.com/pappanick/demos",
      "description": "Claude Code plugins. Fusion runs a local panel of AI models where one judges and the others plan, review and build."
    }
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