Anastasios Orfanidis

Engineer. Educator. Builder.

I believe in craft, curiosity, and not pretending broken things are fine.

Craft

Humility The system is bigger than you
Ownership No one is coming to fix it
Curiosity Stop asking why, start building wrong

I have built production software across AI, biotech, health tech, defence, and civic technology. Every domain is different. Every system fails the same way. People stop caring about how things work, and the whole thing rots from the inside.

Slack time is where real engineering happens. Not the sprint. Not the standup. The time you spend understanding why a system behaves the way it does. That is the craft. AI writes code. It does not ask why.

These are not company values on a wall. They are what survived every project, every team, every failure.

Selected Work

AI

AI Powered Document Platform

Full stack RAG platform for intelligent document interaction with streaming chat, semantic search, and ephemeral sharing.

  • Next.js 15
  • React 19
  • FastAPI
  • +4
Biotech

Genomic Visualisation Platform and Real time Framework

Biotech tool for visualising sequencing data, powered by a custom lightweight real time framework built through TDD.

  • Fastify
  • MongoDB
  • WebSocket
  • +3
Civic Engagement

Civic Platform

Solo built civic engagement platform with 44+ components, bilingual architecture, and D3 visualisations.

  • Astro
  • TypeScript
  • D3.js
  • +1
All work

EkoHacks

In 2025, while the industry was sprinting towards AI, I went to Lagos and built an XP team. A software craftsmanship dojo in a place most people in tech never think about.

Grounded in Paulo Freire's pedagogy. Developers learn by building real products together.

  • TDD from day one
  • Pair programming on every feature
  • Daily code reviews

Compassionate coaching. Drawing out understanding rather than imposing it. A "no mouse" culture so every developer experiences accessibility firsthand. Nullable Infrastructure across every project. Zero mocking frameworks.

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Impact

The same principles that build good software can build a local economy. AURIO is a worker cooperative model in rural Greece. Silk sourced directly from artisans. Revenue stays where it is made.

The full model

Same principles. Everything I do.

Whether it is code, a workshop, or a political platform. Humility, ownership, and curiosity do not change depending on the project.

Available for engineering, consulting, workshops, and building things that matter.

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