Leonidas Vomvoridis
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Kifisia, Greece
Toptal member since June 22, 2022
Leonidas has a solid academic background, 12 years of software engineering experience in various technologies and business domains, four years of experience as a scrum master in Germany, Greece, and Thailand, and engineering management roles at two startups. A proponent of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum, and as an agile coach for the past five years, he strives to inspire the teams he works with and cultivate a mindset of adapting to change and continuous improvement.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Software Development
- Jira
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
- Servant Leadership
- Training
Work Experience
Agile Coach
Freelance
- Spearheaded agile transformation at the major pharma company's Greece-Cyprus-Malta cluster. Set up three scrum teams (digital marketing). Coached two scrum masters, three product owners, and senior management; 15 months full-time and six part-time.
- Reorganized the then 9-person engineering team that grew to 18 into two scrum and one kanban team for а Series A-funded Vivante Health after a seed-stage free-for-all development process. Worked 18 months full-time.
- Transitioned Vodafone Greece to in-house software development. Trained a big part of the organization (15 two-day and five one-day sessions) on Scrum and Agile. Set up six cross-functional development teams and cross-team collaboration.
- Provided hourly agile coaching for engineering managers and executives at Greek startups such as taxi-hailing app Beat and Diatasys, a financial software developer and SAP integrator, and an online freelance agency.
- Held training such as five private and two public two-day courses on Scrum and Kanban. Follow-up cohorts for scrum masters and product owners (two each).
- Founded the Athens Agile Coaching Circle, a community of agile coaches to develop and practice coaching skills and competencies. Volunteered as a co-organizer of the Agile Greece Summit in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Spoke at two Agile Greece meetups.
- Collaborated with Geoff Watts on his book called Team Mastery.
VP Engineering
Digital AIR Innovation Company
- Acted as a full-stack engineer, scrum master, and VP of engineering as the company grew.
- Set up the product discovery and prototyping team, evolving into an MVP development team.
- Integrated workflow for building and testing hybrid apps, Unity3D with ARToolkit for the AR experience, and native Android and iOS for the rest of the application.
COO
Anixe
- Acted as a back-end engineer, scrum master for the initial team, and Agile coach and COO as the company grew to 55 people in four scrum and two kanban teams.
- Set up scrum processes with the initial and subsequent teams and cross-team collaboration (scrum of scrums and communities of practice).
- Set up an automated build and testing workflow. Integrated a toolchain with Jira, GitHub, and Bamboo.
Scrum Master
AGT International
- Joined the new R&D hub in Darmstadt, Germany as a senior software engineer. The experience of working in a high-performing scrum had a profound impact.
- Volunteered to take on the role of scrum master when the team was left without a scrum master. This decision was strongly reinforced after CSM training.
- Decided to pursue the development of non-technical skills as part of a newly found mission—to help others experience the same profound impact of working in a high-performing scrum team.
Mobile Software Engineer
Freelance
- Built three Android apps for showcasing IBM hardware such as servers and printers on my own.
- Created the Cosmote Jumping Fish Studio (music sharing community) app on Symbian as part of a two-person team.
- Developed the app for the largest Athens restaurant and entertainment guide, Athinorama, on J2ME single-handedly.
Software Engineer
Intrasoft International
- Developed iComPay, a payment platform for banks with features such as domestic, cross-border SEPA and SWIFT, direct debits, mass payments, ACH, BoP, and AML reporting. Worked as part of a 12-person team.
- Analyzed customer requirements and developed bank-specific iComPay implementation for Geniki Bank, Societe Generale subsidiary in Greece, as part of a four-person team.
- Analyzed customer requirements and single-handedly developed bank-specific iComPay implementation for APS Bank Malta.
Solution Architect
Diebold Nixdorf
- Designed the solution and produced the technical proposal that was part of the winning bid for a € 7.5 million managed services project for the largest bank in Greece, NBG.
- Developed a prototype of a GSM and GPS-enabled tracking device for ATMs.
- Integrated the company's printer driver with Escher Riposte, for the Greek Post Office (ELTA).
Software Engineer
UniSystems
- Analyzed customer requirements, designed the solution, and developed and trained customer developers and business users on two business rules management systems—consumer and SME loan application pre-screening for Piraeus Bank (solo engagement).
- Developed a complete loan origination and platform for Eurobank as part of an 11-person team.
- Analyzed customer requirements and developed a proof of concept for a treasury back-office commission calculation business rules management system for Eurobank. This was a solo engagement.
Project History
GIThrive
https://vivantehealth.com/how-it-works/Established processes for the growing engineering team after Series A funding.
CU Big Bang
https://www.vodafonecu.gr/upiresies-cu/big-bang/Created the environment for developing and launching a successful AR app from scratch.
Zythos Bed Bank
Assembled, trained, mentored, and managed a team that built, from scratch, a hotel room booking engine for FTI Touristik in Germany.
The project consisted of a back-office web app for purchasing managers, supporting a lot of the complexity of paper-based contracts, and a calculation engine that could serve 80 million pricing requests per day and 20,000 sub-second transaction-safe bookings.
My Vodafone App and Web
Spearheaded the transition from vendor to in-house software development for Vodafone Greece.
Set up quarterly cross-team portfolio Kanban. Formalized project qualification process with lean canvas and cost of delay. Trained other parts of the organization on Agile and Scrum and fostered more interaction between business and tech, particularly with extended use of user story mapping.
Education
Master's Degree in Information Systems
University of Surrey - Guildford, UK
Engineer's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Patras - Patras, Greece
Certifications
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Git, Atlassian Suite, Pivotal Tracker, Trello, Miro, MURAL
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Scrum, Agile, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Servant Leadership, Key Performance Metrics, Agile Leadership, DevOps, Microservices Architecture, Event-driven Architecture
Platforms
Linux, Android
Industry Expertise
Digital Marketing
Other
Scrum Master, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Sprint Planning, User Stories, Sprint Retrospectives, Process Improvement, Sprint Ceremonies, Computer Science, Engineering, Agile Coaching, Software Development, Engineering Management, Training, Back-end, Test Automation, Scrum Coaching, Technical Project Management, Story Mapping, Startups, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Product Roadmaps, Certified Scrum Professional, CSP, Workshops, Technical Product Management, Product Owner, Unity3D, Executive Coaching, C#, J2ME, Symbian, Qt, Java, Agile Scaling Frameworks, SaaS, Scrum Product Owner, Serverless Architecture
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