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I am a former Head Chef turned Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead (contractor). My background in commercial kitchens taught me to stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems with tight deadlines. Today, whether embedded in cross-functional teams or building solo, I create products from scratch, modernize legacy systems, and help companies ship scalable software faster—often leveraging real-time, AI-driven experiences.…I am a former Head Chef turned Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead (contractor). My background in commercial kitchens taught me to stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems with tight deadlines. Today, whether embedded in cross-functional teams or building solo, I create products from scratch, modernize legacy systems, and help companies ship scalable software faster—often leveraging real-time, AI-driven experiences.

Nikos Floros

Full Stack Developer, Software Engineer, Front-End Developer

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I am a former Head Chef turned Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead (contractor). My background in commercial kitchens taught me to stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems with tight deadlines. Today, whether embedded in cross-functional teams or building solo, I create products from scratch, modernize legacy systems, and help companies ship scalable software faster—often leveraging real-time, AI-driven experiences.…I am a former Head Chef turned Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead (contractor). My background in commercial kitchens taught me to stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems with tight deadlines. Today, whether embedded in cross-functional teams or building solo, I create products from scratch, modernize legacy systems, and help companies ship scalable software faster—often leveraging real-time, AI-driven experiences.

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I am a former Head Chef turned Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead (contractor). My background in commercial kitchens taught me to stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems with tight deadlines.

Today, whether embedded in cross-functional teams or building solo, I create products from scratch, modernize legacy systems, and help companies ship scalable software faster—often leveraging real-time, AI-driven experiences.

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Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer at Dialectica

June 1, 2023 - Present

Promoted to Technical Lead to drive engineering strategy. Architected a full-stack AI interviewer platform integrating OpenAI real-time API and streaming via WebSockets with local state persistence. Co-designed an experimental prototyping framework with the Engineering Director so teams could test new features and plugins inside the main app before full-scale rollout. Built Dialectica’s enterprise design system and monorepo from scratch using React, Tailwind CSS, and Storybook to unify UI standards and eliminate paid third-party license fees. Led a core platform upgrade to React 18 and TypeScript 5, reducing production bundle size by 61%, improving UI performance by 49%, and cutting local dev reload times from ~10s to ~1s. Mentored cross-functional engineers on performance and design patterns and introduced custom Cursor AI workflows to significantly speed up team development.

Senior Software Engineer at BBC (Elections Team)

January 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023

Engineered resilient frontend components and APIs for live election coverage, maintaining zero downtime for millions of concurrent users during peak UK and US election cycles. Delivered highly accessible, WCAG-compliant UI components by enforcing strict test-driven development (TDD) using Jest and React Testing Library.

Software Engineer at TigerTMS

January 1, 2020 - January 31, 2022

Built full-stack features for the iPortal web application using React, Node.js, and Firebase, contributing to a product win for the "Innovation Award for Guest Experience of Tomorrow". Designed accessible, responsive user interfaces that improved guest engagement metrics and increased revenue across enterprise hotel client accounts.