Petros

Petros

Web Developer

Petros was born in Thessaloniki, studied Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete and then moved to the far, cold north for his Master's degree in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He came to Berlin for a weekend holiday and ended up staying for over a decade.

As a programmer, he has worked for companies specializing in everything from smart homes and printer drivers to sex toys and synths. As an artist, he self-publishes books and comics under his own Black Zeus Books label where he is a writer and illustrator.

Influential works

Music

  • The Beatles – Red Album
  • Rainbow – Rainbow Rising
  • Slayer – Reign in Blood
  • Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
  • Sepultura – Roots
  • Soulfly – Soulfly
  • Trypes – Mesa sti Nihta ton Allon
  • Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thunder God

Comics

  • Hugo Pratt – The Ballad of the Salty Sea
  • Quino – Mafalda
  • Arkas – The Rooster
  • Reiser – Gros Dégueulasse
  • Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons – Watchmen
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius – The Incal
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky & Juan Giménez – Metabarons
  • Masashi Kishimoto – Naruto
  • Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples – Saga

Novels

  • Isaac Asimov – Foundation series
  • Nikos Kazantzakis – Christ Recrucified
  • Maria Iordanidou – Loxantra
  • Philip K. Dick – Ubik
  • Ursula K. Le Guin – The Dispossessed
  • George R. R. Martin – A Song of Ice and Fire

Petros minutiae

  • Old-schooler
  • Loves lemons and spaceships
  • He is passionate about comics, metal and storytelling
  • The only instrument he has ever tried to learn is darbuka and drums on pillows
  • Prefers analog board games to electronic ones (except for some '90s adventure computer games)
  • Loves big tables with lots of food, wine and good company (Mediterranean style)
  • Soup lover unlike his favorite comic heroine Mafalda

 


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