Ioannis Bekiaris is a highly experienced software engineer with over 8 years of experience in the field. Graduating from the National Technical University of Athens and having worked at various organizations, Bekiaris has become an expert in PHP, Node JS, and Scala programming languages. He is also an expert in design patterns, algorithms, web app optimization, code refactoring, and RESTful web services. Bekiaris is passionate about learning more about the latest in microservices architectures and distributed systems. He has contributed to Zend Framework 2 and Yii2 open source projects and has worked with companies such as MessageBird, ASICS EMEA, and agap2 Netherlands among others.