I am a Lead Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in developing and leading large-scale enterprise projects, particularly in the financial sector. I am skilled in multiple programming paradigms including object oriented and functional programming, with a proven track record of delivering efficient, reliable, and maintainable systems. I have a passion for pragmatic engineering, innovation, and continuous learning. Throughout my career, I have led complex software projects, fostering innovation and enabling team upskilling while improving product robustness, security, and business analytics. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy empowering teams with newer technologies and meaningful code practices.

Krom Mydas

I am a Lead Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in developing and leading large-scale enterprise projects, particularly in the financial sector. I am skilled in multiple programming paradigms including object oriented and functional programming, with a proven track record of delivering efficient, reliable, and maintainable systems. I have a passion for pragmatic engineering, innovation, and continuous learning. Throughout my career, I have led complex software projects, fostering innovation and enabling team upskilling while improving product robustness, security, and business analytics. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy empowering teams with newer technologies and meaningful code practices.

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I am a Lead Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in developing and leading large-scale enterprise projects, particularly in the financial sector. I am skilled in multiple programming paradigms including object oriented and functional programming, with a proven track record of delivering efficient, reliable, and maintainable systems. I have a passion for pragmatic engineering, innovation, and continuous learning.

Throughout my career, I have led complex software projects, fostering innovation and enabling team upskilling while improving product robustness, security, and business analytics. I thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy empowering teams with newer technologies and meaningful code practices.

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Work Experience

Client Onboarding Software Architect / Lead Full-Stack Engineer at UBS
September 1, 2024 - Present
Overseeing a cloud migration project with two teams and 12 engineers while actively engaging in engineering areas. Fostering innovation across a department of about 100 engineers. Redefined UBS product offerings by introducing centralized and consistent models and functionality across all channels. Improved front-end robustness by implementing state persistence and hydration techniques. Enhanced public API security through request whitelisting and suspicious request monitoring. Improved operations and monitoring by standardizing front-to-back structured logs and removing noise in logs. Introduced a data lake platform for event-based ingestion and schema on read to bolster business analytics. Led developer upskilling efforts promoting simplicity and meaningful code. Improved engineering productivity via faster compile times, local environment setups, and comprehensive testing strategies. Enhanced API operations and integration by introducing code-first schema generation for producers an
Lead Back-end Software Engineer - Securities Settlement at UBS
September 1, 2024 - August 28, 2025
Led a cross-functional team of 6 engineers focusing on domain-driven decisions and pragmatic architecture in the Wealth Management department. Delivered innovative solutions for Swift parsing (ISO 20022) and digital products including Key4Gold and CryptoCurrencies settlement. Designed and implemented enterprise tools providing out-of-the-box solutions for trades settlement such as domain query services, trades booking, Swift parsing, and archiving. Improved interoperability between Java and legacy Cobol-based core banking systems by introducing a novel approach to the Data Format Description Language (DFDL). Enhanced site reliability through comprehensive monitoring and extended acceptance testing while simplifying product architecture. Introduced and improved team KPI metrics resulting in increased time to market by 70%, reduction of failure rate from 10% to below 1%, and halving mean time to recovery via centralized logging based on Splunk.
Senior Back-End Software Engineer (Contractor) at UBS
March 31, 2022 - August 28, 2025
Worked on various areas including authorization systems (LDAP, Azure AD), Kafka streams with stateful operations and processing API customizations, and business logic development. Built an ingenious CI/CD framework in GitLab to streamline operations. Contributed significantly to UBS proprietary compliance framework focused on sensitive data handling. Monitored Trade Settlements leveraging C#, Kotlin, Cucumber SpecFlow, GitLab Pipelines, Kafka Streams, Ansible, DB2/Toad, and PowerShell.
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Profile Software
April 1, 2020 - August 28, 2025
Led design and implementation of the Accounting Module and expanded analytics capabilities with ingenious customizable reports using Telerik C# library. Focused on platform improvements in performance with custom caching for data retrieval and configuration centralization and categorization. Helped improve security standards following OWASP recommendations for the Axia Wealth Management Suite.
Full-Stack Software Engineer at C.I.T.E
January 1, 2018 - August 28, 2025
Established solid foundations in design principles (S.O.L.I.D, GoF), business logic implementation with object-oriented programming and database tooling including T-SQL and proprietary ORM. Focused on the new Time & Attendance module of the platform. Developed the Employee Management Solution for Indeavor using C#, LINQ, SQL Server, and jQuery UI.

Education

Bachelor in Information Technology at University of Piraeus
January 1, 2012 - August 28, 2025

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet