Portfolio

Greek

I'm Theo Dimakop

Undergraduate programmer. I'm best at Linux, prototyping and user testing.

I'm looking for internship during the Summer or a bit later to get my degree. My Greek full name is Theodoros Dimakopoulos.

CV PDF
face of man, green eyes, long hair

Bits of experience

  • I entered the University of Athens in 2019. We write C, C++ and Python code and one focus is to explore the internals of databases, parallel processing and old-school artificial intelligence.
  • Apart from the University, I scrap together little programs as a hobby. I still use some of them. Some have been through a number of phases where they became complicated and simple again.
  • In 2024 I interned at a chat bot and AI company called Helvia. The first out of three months I tried connecting two repositories with Docker files and then I made a web app to learn backend.

Key streaming app

To learn backend web development in my internship, I prototyped an app using the tools I had to learn. It was inspired by these moments when someone sends a long message and you wish you could interrupt them. It uses ReactJS, NextJS, plain CSS and Python's FastAPI. The protocol and some UI quirks had to be improvised.


          
    
            
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          Messaging app with an input bar saying stream typing, a menu has two chat rooms, a theme button and links saying author and GitHub.
          Messaging app that outlines deleted text and has a button saying clear. The input box has the same text as two messages above it.
        

      

      

        

          
This portfolio

          
    
            
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    In 2023 I used short PHP functions that print HTML, inspired by Clean Code.
    
            
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    Then, I tried to use PHP the intended way. The challenge was to keep the Greek version consistent.
    
            
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    The third time, I fit all the code in one HTML file and there was a script that produced the Greek file.
    
            
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    In the end, I managed without a script using JavaScript. That was inspired by a talk by DHH about build steps.
    
            
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Four screenshots of sites with Theodore's face, the second and third have a mountains backdrop.

      

      

        
Values

        
    
          
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            Demonstrations
            
    Demonstrations, prototypes and user tests reveal problems early.
    
          
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            Communication
            
    I find that understanding people makes work easier and more fun.
    
          
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            Simple needs
            
    Simple code can be laborous and risky, but I tend to prefer it.
    
          
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I tend to prefer teams where it's easy to try out a piece of code to some degree, perhaps using automated tests without integration or by having a build system that allows one to try a part of the system. I prefer working in person usually, depending on the distance from home and the team. It's easier to tell when it's the right time to strike a short conversation, in person.