Panos Laganakos

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My name is Panos Laganakos. I am a software engineer. And a guitarist. But I guess that's not why you're here. Enough of that. Oh, sometimes I design stuff.

Current position: Head of Engineering @ Krotos

Portfolio

Krotos

Krotos's mission is to redefine the process of sound design

As the Head of the Engineering, I lead the development of groundbreaking audio software tools that have become industry standards in film post-production and game audio.

Our award-winning plugins: Dehumaniser 2, Reformer Pro, Weaponiser, Igniter, and Concept 2 are widely recognized for their ability to streamline the sound design workflow. These tools have earned credits in major Hollywood and AAA game titles, including Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, The Lion King, Avengers, and Star Trek, underscoring their impact and reliability in the industry.

With Krotos Studio, we've aimed to provide a singular solution for all sound design requirements, consolidating the process into one efficient and creative workflow.

Technologies used: C++, JUCE, Python, C, MySQL, AWS, Docker

Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Atlas, Bitbucket

AireHealth

AireHealth's mission is to revolutionize the hybrid respiratory care

As the Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead, I oversee all software development. I've orchestrated the successful release of our Nebulizer's companion app (MyAireHealth) & our Connected Nebulizer's accompanying firmware. I plan & coordinate all our software releases, and conceptualize our new products software solutions.

I handle our AWS infrastructure and manage our legacy Linode deployments.

But I also develop all backend/API code, our React Native software and parts of the devices' firmware

Technologies used: Python, React Native, ExpressJS, C, MySQL, AWS, App Center, Docker

Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Greenlight Guru

BreathResearch

BreathResearch was a California health startup, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic. It has since been aquired by AireHealth

Streamlined & further developed the backend/API which was written in Laravel/PHP. Did the same for the administrative frontend, which was written in React/JS (using Bootstrap among others). I also designed the UI/UX of MyBreath App which is live on the App Store.

Delivered a new proprietary Machine Learning system, for respiratory pathology classification & early exacerbation detection tracking, that we implemented in Python. Flask (and family) was used for the backend/API.

Technologies used: Python, PHP, C++, Swift/ObjC, ReactJS

Tools used: Trello, Bitbucket

SeismoTech

Seismotech is an innovative geophysical service company. A leader in the application and evolution of Passive Seismic Tomography

Rewrote the simulps project, porting the original legacy code from 1986 to modern OO Fortran (HPF). I optimised the whole program to run 160% faster.

Technologies used: Fortran, Debian packaging & opts

Inertia Sound Systems

Inertia Sound Systems aims to offer creative audio processing tools for every musician in need of that extra touch of weirdness

Designed and co-developed two of the most successful plugins in their respective fields. GRANULIZER 2, an audio granular synth, and INSTINCT an organic distortion. Both projects are developed in C++.

Technologies used: C++, JUCE, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linode

Tools used: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket

Syfanope

Syfanope is the largest pharmaceutical distributor in Peloponesse

Designed and built the website along with an online ordering system for the pharmacies, with b2b offers of the company.

Technologies used: Django, Bootstrap

Menufesto

Online food delivery catalogue for the city of Kalamata

Designed from the ground up in Django, and optimized to serve more than 78.000 monthly visits. Built a dedicated smartphone & tablet based version with speed and responsive layout optimizations.

Technologies used: Technologies used: Django, SASS/CSS3, HTML/5, jQuery and some vanilla JS parts

EDM Studio

A company focused around building software for interactive museums

I created part of the template system of their static site generator.

Technologies used: Python, SASS/CSS3, HTML5

Open-source Work

I've contributed to alot of open source projects throughout the years. Most notable Django, one of the biggest Python projects. Some of my personal ones, I keep on Github. One of those, is django-currencies which is used by thousands of developers.

Skillset

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • C/C++
  • Fortran
  • PHP
  • Django
  • ReactJS
  • React Native