Software Architect · Toronto, Canada · 43.6532° N 79.3832° W

Georgios Psarakis

I design and ship fast, reliable products — from high-throughput services to design systems — with a love for all things JavaScript.

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01 / About

Building software that holds up under real traffic.

I'm a Toronto-based software architect currently at Konrad Group, where I work across frontend, backend, and data platforms to modernize enterprise products. Over the past several years I've architected high-throughput services, led testing and design-system initiatives, and helped teams adopt AI-assisted development workflows — always with an eye for measurable impact, from cutting API latency to boosting user retention.

  • 120ms API latency, down from 30+ seconds
  • 300M+ Monthly transactions processed
  • 6 teams ~50 engineers onboarded to new workflows

02 / Stack

The shape of what I build with.

Client

Service

Data

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03 / Selected work

Three things worth the detail.

001

Product Availability Service

30s 120ms

Konrad Group · Node.js, Redis, DynamoDB

A high-throughput availability service that replaced a synchronous lookup taking upwards of thirty seconds, cutting API latency to 120ms.

002

Transaction Data Platform

300M+ / month

Konrad Group · Snowflake, Databricks

Optimized data workflows to process 300M+ monthly transactions, improving reliability and enabling real-time customer insights.

003

GitOps Argo Import

$2.5M+ influenced

Harness.io · React, GCP

Argo instance importing and credential templates for the GitOps product, contributing to $2.5M+ in closed sales.

04 / Experience

Where I've worked.

  1. Software Architect — Konrad Group

    Nov 2024 — Present · Toronto, ON

    • Modernized enterprise digital platforms using React, Next.js, Sanity CMS, and a shared design system, cutting new page creation and content delivery from days to minutes.
    • Built a high-throughput product availability service with Node.js, Redis, and DynamoDB, reducing API latency from 30+ seconds to 120ms.
    • Optimized data workflows with Snowflake and Databricks to process 300M+ monthly transactions, improving reliability and enabling real-time customer insights.
    • Introduced Claude Code–based development workflows across 6 engineering teams (~50 engineers), cutting PR turnaround from 1 week to 2–3 days via shared CLAUDE.md standards.

  2. Software Engineer — Talent Systems

    Feb 2023 — Sep 2024 · Toronto, ON

    • Streamlined initial project creation requirements, an 84% reduction in time to begin new projects on Casting Networks.
    • Partnered with product on premium subscriber incentives, including the Thrive health-benefits program, driving a 20% month-over-month increase in retention.
    • Established guiding principles for reusable components using atomic design, creating a more cohesive component library.

  3. Senior Software Engineer — Harness.io

    Jan 2022 — Dec 2022 · Toronto, ON

    • Delivered Argo instance importing and credential templates for the GitOps product, contributing to $2.5M+ in closed sales.
    • Spearheaded unit and Cypress E2E testing practices, raising code coverage from 0% to 80%.
    • Co-authored frontend architecture documentation guiding teams toward more readable, maintainable React code.
    • Managed GitOps infrastructure on GCP, including canary release strategy.

  4. Software Engineer — CircleCI

    Jul 2020 — Jan 2022 · Toronto, ON

    • Built a one-button first-build onboarding experience, lifting user engagement 40% and top-level company metrics 10%.
    • Led experimentation architecture and best practices for Optimizely frontend experiments.
    • Built a shared Optimizely testing framework in React used across all micro-frontend projects.
    • Owned canary deployment and release strategy on AWS.

  5. Senior Software Engineer — HomeX

    Aug 2019 — Jul 2020 · Toronto, ON

    • Restructured the consumer app architecture in React, cutting load times by 71%.
    • Led a direct-to-consumer account and billing system, removing dependency on third-party providers.
    • Built backend-for-frontend microservices in .NET and Node.js.

Education

Institution
Georgian College
Program
Computer Programming
2015 – 2017 · Barrie, ON
Standing
President's List
4.0 GPA

05 / Contact

Let's build
something.

Have a role, project, or idea in mind? My inbox is open — I try to reply within a couple of days.

g.psarakis3800@gmail.com