Larnaca, Cyprus
Hands-on CTO · VP / Head of Engineering
I build software platforms and the teams that run them.
At a glance
Strategy and roadmap for a product portfolio, agreed directly with the CEO, the CDTO, product owners and the business, BI and commercial teams. Thirteen engineers across development, QA, DevOps and IT, eight remote and five on site.
Event-driven services with one job each, talking through a message broker and coordinated with SAGA orchestration. I designed and delivered a monitoring platform of about 30 microservices, and led a team of three on an onboarding system of about 28.
I led the move from IIS to Docker to Kubernetes. The cloud and edge setup, the CI/CD pipelines and the monitoring stack are mine to run, so the platform works without a separate DevOps team behind it.
Notevex, TableButler and Operavex are running in production. Synolon and Alterwise are in development. More than ten products built in total, across web and mobile.
Profile
I have done most jobs on an engineering team at some point. That is why I can set direction with a board and still be the person who answers for whether the system holds up under load.
I joined a RegTech company as a developer in 2018 and I am now its Vice President of Technology Development. I got there by taking the problems other people avoided, and by learning infrastructure on my own servers in the evenings until I could run it at work.
The first years were deep in the domain: AML and KYC screening, integrations with sanctions and adverse-media providers, platforms for government and municipalities with payments built in, and risk systems built together with banks. I learned how the business makes its money as well as how the code works, and that is what lets me argue an architecture decision in commercial terms.
Today I set the engineering strategy and roadmap for most of the product portfolio with the CEO, the CDTO, the product owners and the commercial teams. I also built the engineering function itself: the delivery process, the CI/CD pipelines, the cloud and edge setup, and a team split across two locations.
Outside the day job I run Alexandrou Intelligence, the software company I founded. Everything it ships, I designed and built.
Building now
Built through my own company, Alexandrou Intelligence. Same architecture underneath, very different problems on top.
Business platform · multi-tenant SaaS
Clients, projects, people and reporting in one system.
A multi-tenant SaaS that brings CRM and sales, operations, a developer API and a client portal together, on the web and on native mobile.
Ordering and payments for venues
Guests order and pay from the table.
Ordering, payments, loyalty and reservations for restaurants, cafés and bars. Guests scan the code on the table, read the menu in their own language, order, pay and split the bill, and every order reaches the staff on their phones.
thetablebutler.comFull details
Business platform for Cyprus and Greece
From the Greek σύνολον: the whole.
My largest project so far: sales, projects, invoicing, accounting, payroll and compliance in one platform, all working from the same records, with the rules of Cyprus and Greece built in, from VAT to payroll to myDATA.
Synolon
One platform. One record of everything.
Planning personas for operations teams
Your best people, multiplied.
In every company someone just knows which order goes first and what will go wrong next. Alterwise connects to the data a company already has and builds personas that plan the way its most experienced people do.
Proposed plan
Why: this is how your most experienced planner handles a busy Monday.
AI development
I use AI agents in two different places, and each needs its own discipline: inside the systems I design, and in the way I build them.
An agentic framework is a distributed system, so I build it like one. Agents are services, and they work together through the message broker.
AI makes development fast. The work is keeping that speed on top of a foundation that holds, so a quick proof of concept can grow into a production system without a rewrite.
Career
Nine years, three roles, one company that grew with me. Keep scrolling.
The full experience2023 — Present
A RegTech company of 40+ people · AML/KYC platform for institutional financial clients
Responsible for engineering strategy, architecture and infrastructure across most of the product portfolio, with 13 engineers in two locations.
2018 — 2023
Same company, before the platform was re-architected
Built the core AML/KYC screening and a large number of third-party integrations, plus platforms for government, municipalities and banks.
2017 — 2018
A production web application for an enterprise professional-services client
My first job in the industry: a production web application on .NET and SQL Server.
Education · 2019 — 2021
UCLan Cyprus
Upper High Rank. Focused on machine learning and AI; the capstone built ML fraud-detection models on forex data with Python and SQL.
Education · 2014 — 2017
UCLan Cyprus
Top graduate of the year. Thesis: a racing game in C# and Unity that doubles as a colour-blindness test.
Explore
My roles, my products and the technology underneath them, as one live graph. Grab a node and throw it, hover to see what it connects to, click to open it.
I am happy to walk you through any system on this page, or go through its architecture in depth. Email or LinkedIn is quickest.