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Fanis Tharropoulos

Based
Athens, Greece
Contact
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About

I'm Fanis Tharropoulos, a Software Engineer at Typesense, working on an open-source search engine and its language clients, framework integrations, and core features.

Eric Barnes and Fanis talking on the Laravel News set at Laracon EU
A quick chat with Eric Barnes at LaraconEU Laravel News · Mar 3, 2026

I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where my master's thesis explored how to evaluate and improve AI code assistants like GitHub Copilot.

I enjoy all things FOSS, especially building developer tools in Python, TypeScript & more, alongside helping the community through documentation, demos, and direct support.

Software EngineerTypesense

2024–now

I maintain and develop language clients across multiple programming languages and contribute to the core search engine. I also maintain other packages in the Typesense ecosystem including the web scraper, InstantSearch adapter, and Firestore extension. My role includes implementing new features, building demos and documentation, and supporting users through Slack, GitHub, and customer meetings. I focus on ensuring cross-platform compatibility and providing clear examples to help users integrate Typesense effectively.

I've coauthored a couple of apps under the museslabs GitHub org.

Recent pull requests

All on GitHub

Education