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Fokion Sotiropoulos has a diverse work experience in the software engineering field. Fokion started their career at Textensor Limited in 2013, where they primarily worked on the front end of the web platform, building and maintaining web components, implementing new features, and conducting automated testing. Fokion used Javascript, PHP, NodeJs, and Java for their work.

In 2017, Fokion joined deltaDNA as a Senior Software Engineer and worked on various projects ranging from internal tools to customer-facing portals. Their responsibilities included introducing new features, improving existing ones, and integrating with tools such as localisation, custom dashboard components, and event-based in-game engagements. Fokion utilized technologies such as Backbone, React, AngularJS, jQuery, RequireJs, Webpack, and Java 8 with Postgres and Vertica databases.

Moving on, Fokion joined Tesco Bank in 2019 as a Senior Software Engineer and later as a Lead Software Engineer. Fokion played a key role in transitioning the backend platform of the mobile application from a JBoss monolith to SpringBoot microservices. Fokion also enhanced the platform's resilience and monitoring capabilities using Splunk and Datadog. Fokion's projects at Tesco Bank included building modular Continuous Delivery services, leveraging terraform for infrastructure and application configuration.

Currently, Fokion holds a position at Yapily as a Senior Software Engineer. In March 2023, they are set to become the Engineering Team Lead. The specific details of their role and responsibilities at Yapily have not been provided.

Fokion Sotiropoulos earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where they studied from 2007 to 2012. Fokion then pursued postgraduate studies in Computer Software Engineering at the University of York from 2012 to 2013. In terms of additional certifications, Fokion obtained the following:

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) from A Cloud Guru | A Pluralsight Company in April 2023.

- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) from A Cloud Guru | A Pluralsight Company in March 2023.

- LFD259: Kubernetes for Developers from The Linux Foundation in March 2023.

- Goal Setting: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) from LinkedIn in August 2022.

- Leadership Tips, Tactics and Advice from LinkedIn in August 2022.

- AWS Security Essentials from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January 2021.

- Advanced Architecting on AWS from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January 2021.

- Leading Teams from Coursera in June 2020.

- Managing Talent from Coursera in June 2020.

- Inspiring and Motivating Individuals from Coursera in May 2020.

- Splunk 7.x Fundamentals Part 1 from Splunk in February 2020.

- Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer from Oracle in September 2018.

- Parallel Programming in Java from Coursera in January 2018.

- HTML5.1x: Web Design Fundamentals (Part 1) from edX in July 2015.

- 40h Microsoft Training for the Imagine Cup from Microsoft in May 2009.

- CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer from The Linux Foundation in April 2023.

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in December 2019.