Hello, I'm
Georgios Katsikis.
Software Engineer
Social Worker, LMSW
Engineer with a social worker's heart. I build custom software for non-profits and healthcare organizations, tools shaped by years of working with the people on the other end.
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About Me
I'm a licensed social worker (LMSW) and software engineer, with training as a meditation teacher. This unique combination shapes how I approach both people and software, with empathy, user-centered thinking, and a focus on creating tools that genuinely help people.
Across the full stack, I specialize in Python, Django, FastAPI, React, and TypeScript. I build custom software for non-profits and healthcare organizations, spaces where my technical skills and human services background intersect.
There's also a whole side of me that doesn't fit in a work section. The mats, the cushion, the table, and the bookshelf have a page of their own.
What I Build
Custom software for non-profits and healthcare teams, scoped in plain language, shipped with care.
Case management & intake
Client records, referrals, and intake flows built around how your team actually works, not the other way around.
Dashboards & reporting
Funder-ready reports and live program dashboards from the data you already collect.
Integrations & automation
Connect the systems you're stuck with, EHRs, spreadsheets, email, and automate the copy-paste in between.
Web apps, end to end
From first conversation to deployed product. Design, build, hosting, and the unglamorous essentials like backups and secure logins.
I've built systems that handle protected health information, column-level encryption, audit trails, passkey login. HIPAA isn't an afterthought here; it's a starting assumption.
How an engagement runs
Position before submission, as jiu-jitsu teaches. Understand fully, then build.
A short discovery call
Thirty minutes, plain language, free. You describe the problem; I'll tell you honestly whether custom software is the right answer, sometimes it isn't.
A fixed-scope proposal
What gets built, what it costs, and when it ships, in writing, before any money moves.
Build, with weekly check-ins
You see working software every week, and nothing launches without your sign-off. After launch, I stay reachable for support.
Engagements contract through Cabro Insight LLC.
Projects
FeaturedWisely
A platform where licensed clinicians review and recommend books on anxiety, grief, relationships, and personal growth, helping clients find the right read backed by professional insight.
FeaturedCite Kitten
A native macOS menu-bar app bridging Zotero and Scrivener, search your reference library from a Spotlight-style popup and insert citekeys, quotes, or bibliography entries, then compile in whatever academic format is required.
Xrisos
Live gold and silver tracking, real-time COMEX prices, candlestick charts back to 2000, and a purchase log with live P&L. Its gold/silver-ratio signal measures against a trailing five-year window, backtested as a large improvement over all-history comparisons. Xrisos is Greek for gold.
Software Engineer Experience
CTO
Ocean LabsLeading the technical vision for a HIPAA-regulated patient-clinician matching platform that pairs people with the right therapist, live at tryocean.io.
- Architected the platform end to end with a Django REST API, PostgreSQL, Cloud Tasks async workers, and a Next.js/TypeScript frontend
- Designed an LLM-driven retrieve-and-rank matching engine scoring therapeutic alliance and patient-clinician compatibility
- Implemented security and compliance for PHI, including WebAuthn passkey MFA, column-level encryption, and field-level audit history
Full-Stack Developer
iNDEMAND
Building scalable backend systems and responsive interfaces for high-traffic media applications.
- Developed RESTful APIs in Python/Django with metadata transformation and video transcoding integration
- Optimized PostgreSQL and Redis schemas, reducing query execution times by 35%
- Enhanced security with Hashicorp Vault integration and private networking architecture
- Built responsive React.js/TypeScript interfaces for seamless data retrieval
Software Engineer
Mercury MarketingContract build of a multi-tenant marketing analytics platform managing campaigns across web, email, print, and social media for four client businesses.
- Designed role-based access control with per-client data isolation, while parent companies keep visibility across their brands
- Automated Excel ingestion with Pandas, transforming thousands of advertising records into campaign insights and reporting
- Shipped real-time Recharts dashboards for campaign performance, deployed on Railway behind Cloudflare with migrations applied automatically on every deploy
Technical Director
Bridgeport Film Festival
Started my professional journey updating the festival website and building custom tools to manage submissions and event scheduling.
- Maintained and enhanced the festival website
- Helped manage automated e-mail campaigns for 500+ subscribers
- Collaborated with the team to ensure smooth operations during the festival
Technologies
Some tools and technologies I work with
The Social Work Side
You won't find a timeline or bullet points here, that's on purpose. This side of me isn't corporate, and it never was. Social work, as a mentor once told me, isn't what I do, it's how I do it.
I'm trained in mindfulness-based interventions, EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), DBT, and I approach care through an attachment lens. As a mixed-race child of immigrants, cultural humility isn't a framework I studied, it's the house I grew up in.
These values follow me everywhere, including into the software I build.