Pano Kamitidis
Java Architect, Developer & Consultant — Freelance
Experienced Java backend specialist with 11+ years of professional experience designing, building and maintaining enterprise applications across eHealth, banking & insurance, and telecom. Currently Application Architect at Smals (Belgian federal eGov ICT partner) since 2020. Multidisciplinary background — laboratory science before software — informs a systems-thinking, quality-first approach.
Core Competencies & Skills
Software Architecture
Microservices
Cloud Architecture
RESTful APIs
Java
Spring Framework
PostgreSQL / SQL
Docker / OpenShift
CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
FHIR
Professional Experience
Working in the Vitalink team on the national platform that lets healthcare providers securely share patient data.
- Design and implement software architecture in close collaboration with solution architects.
- Lead migrations to new technologies and infrastructure (e.g. OpenShift 3 → 4).
- Introduced performance tracing with Zipkin across the service fleet.
- Refactored multiple microservices and significant portions of the shared codebase.
- Mentor and coach junior developers; conducted numerous technical interviews.
Planned, designed, built and tested new software applications end-to-end for internal and customer-facing applications.
- Sign Platform: The main application responsible for the signing process of all documents for Belfius Insurance and Bank.
- WebSocket framework: Server + JavaScript client library for socket-based front-end integration.
- eID integration: Background Belgian-eID card-reader application that pushes identity data to a message queue.
- QR Login: Alternative login flow. Led the project end-to-end and built the back-end.
Delivering Java solutions to clients across Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Hollandsnieuwe / Vodafone: Collaborated on a multi-brand customer provisioning platform. Refactored the payment process.
- Simcard management: Added Redis-backed HTTP session via Spring Boot, user/account management.
- DCC: Proof of concept of an Android app with a web-services back-end.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor's degree, Applied Computer Science — PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hasselt (2018)
- Associate's degree, Biotechnology — GroepT, Leuven (2014)
- Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer — Oracle
- Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) — Scrum.org
- Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 — Microsoft