Antonios Minas
Verified Expert in Engineering
Front-end Developer
Athens, Central Athens, Greece
Toptal member since February 9, 2015
Antonios is a senior software engineer specializing in front-end, WordPress, Blockchain technology, PHP, and JavaScript frameworks with more than eight years of professional experience spanning from the IT sector to digital advertising. He is passionate about applying top-end solutions and software engineering patterns in order to solve complex problems.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 8 years
- PHP - 7 years
- SCSS - 4 years
- React - 4 years
- Headless Software - 3 years
- Node.js - 2 years
- Shopify - 2 years
- MongoDB - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows, Photoshop 2018, Git, JetBrains, Gulp
The most amazing...
...landing page I've developed was for the Institute for Integrated Economic Research.
Work Experience
Freelance Senior Front-end Developer
Reconstrukt
- Maintained a huge codebase with React components, Next.js starter kits, and Shopify helpers that ensure a fast road from brief to deployment.
- Implemented the front end for a live trivia game for SYFY's Krypton TV series.
- Ensured high compatibility standards across different devices via robust testing.
Freelance Senior Front-end Developer
Addy
- Helped set strict guidelines for front-end development by utilizing the BEM methodology.
- Streamlined the front-end automation process by adding Browsersync, which allows for faster development and testing of new features.
- Brought complex designs and interactions to life, such as dashboards, forms, and seamless UI choreography.
- Worked as a lead front-end developer in the product's redesign.
Freelance Web Developer
WebEdge Marketing
- Maintained and developed several new features on a large national brand WordPress multisite.
- Ensured the client's multisite implementation functions smoothly with a large amount of data.
- Improved multiple features of their legacy site and updated to more recent technologies.
Freelance Web Developer
Young Conservatives LLC
- Developed several WordPress plugins for the client's advertising needs. Features included displaying any number of different ads randomly or in serial order, responsive ads, and ads injected in post content.
- Enhanced the user experience using Ajax and front-end validation for form submission in Mailchimp and contact forms.
- Improved user engagement with various sharing features. Added tracking of user exit intent with the use of jQuery and local storage.
- Redesigned and maintained the network of WordPress sites entirely, emphasizing speed, optimization, and usability.
Freelance Web Designer
Animagic Studios Inc.
- Created a highly customizable WordPress theme where the user is able to pick colors and edit the look and feel of the website from the back-end settings.
- Implemented two different parallax techniques: The first one is relative to device orientation or mouse position, and the latter is relative to page scroll. While heavy in animations and parallax effects, the website is fully functional on smartphones.
- Utilized CSS animations to develop complex interaction effects. During the development process, we collaborated with the client and, in short iterations, implemented complex animations and other effects.
Freelance Web Developer
IIER
- Developed a complex parallax front-end design for their energy awareness website.
- Employed the power of Zen framework on a Drupal 8 configuration.
- Implemented advanced animation techniques to convey the important message of energy awareness.
Web Developer
Konstantin Solutions, LLC
- Maintained and upgraded multiple map features on the military edge web application.
- Fixed issues regarding displaying complex data extracted from WordPress, both on the map and on data tables.
- Worked closely with the client to create advanced mapping features on legacy software.
Freelance WordPress Developer
Folio Websites
- Redesigned and developed the theme back-end pages using Bootstrap.
- Used a PHP SCSS compiler to compile the SCSS styles derived from the framework's settings.
- Merged multiple themes in one easily maintainable framework.
- Added several cosmetic improvements that the end user can control through the settings page.
- Converted old HTML code to semantic and fully responsive HTML5, including microdata, for better SEO.
Front-end Engineer
Mozaik
- Employed Gulp in order to create a front-end automated workflow, which helped me greatly speed up the development process.
- Converted interaction designs from PSD to valid, search engine optimized, and responsive HTML.
- Developed themes and theme frameworks for WordPress and a custom CMS built with the CakePHP framework.
- Applied best practices in web optimization such as responsive images, spriting, font icons, image optimization, deferred loading of JavaScript, non-critical CSS, and images.
- Maintained a GitHub repository with my most-used scripts and Gulp automation Bootstrap.
- Helped set strict coding guidelines for all of our projects.
Software Engineer
Mellon Group of Companies
- Developed Cardiff TeleForm document process management applications (OCR and ICR).
- Administered, maintained, and upgraded legacy Java and other IT projects, one of which was a large-scale mission-critical banking application.
- Participated in the process of writing technical documents and technical analysis for several IT projects and business offers.
- Developed web applications in order to automate and accelerate business processes that were outsourced to clients.
Experience
Energy and Stuff
An estimate of the energy consumption is displayed at the bottom right corner to raise awareness. At the same time, an array of additional settings can be adjusted on mouseover.
Addy.co
https://www.addy.co/Uplyft Capital
https://uplyftcapital.com/Animations are imported and managed in a custom interface created explicitly for Lottie and Bodymovin JSON files exported directly from Adobe After Effects.
Forms can be created and edited via a custom interface designed to connect to third-party software via API calls or plain HTTP requests.
The website uses the latest version of WordPress. All the templates are seamlessly split into blocks managed via Gutenberg.
All of the above play essential roles in eliminating the need for development when clients want to launch new pages or modify their branding.
Animagic
STAMPD
https://stampd.ioStampd.io is a web application that uses public blockchains to timestamp your original digital creations. Ever since our launch in early 2015, we've collaborated with companies in variours sectors such as: media, medical, research and more.
Mozaik Blog
https://www.mozaik.com/blog/The fully optimized blogging theme uses several advanced optimization techniques that ensure fast loading and navigation between pages.
Barclays UI for Creating Shows to Be Displayed in NYC Headquarters Exterior Screen
https://www.investmentbank.barclays.com/news-and-events/10-million-pixels-of-digital-innovation-at-barclays.htmlThe project consists of many inputs, complex validations, and a live preview for scaling and positioning assets on the screen. My main focus during development was the reusability of components.
Conduent Innovation Center Tablet Web Applications
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/conduent-launches-innovation-center-to-drive-customers-digital-transformations-300838053.htmlThe apps control various aspects of the state-of-the-art facility via WebSockets and REST API calls; for example, PDF and video presentation controls, conference calls, etc.
Chobani Gimmies
The site used a synchronized timer during the competition, and the opening and closing dates were scheduled beforehand.
Typically, contest submissions would close only seconds after their start, and the app could handle the heavy traffic.
Education
Master's Degree in e-Business Technology
University of Manchester - Manchester
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Bradford - Bradford
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, Handlebars, jQuery, Node.js, Backbone.js, Leaflet
Tools
Gulp, PhpStorm, Webpack, WebStorm, Adobe Photoshop, JetBrains, Git, Photoshop 2018, Adobe Illustrator, Animatron
Languages
CSS3, CSS, SQL, Less, HTML, JavaScript, SCSS, HTML5, PHP, Sass, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), T-SQL (Transact-SQL), XML, Java
Frameworks
Bootstrap, JavaScript MVC, CakePHP, AngularJS, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Next.js
Paradigms
Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
WordPress, WooCommerce, Hyperledger, Ethereum, Blockchain, Shopify, Windows, Mapbox, Drupal, Drupal 8
Storage
MySQL, JSON, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB
Other
Ajax, Web Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Development, Headless Software, Smart Contracts, Bitcoin, Animation, Lottie
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