Payments and launches
Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, deployment risk, and the technical blockers between a product and revenue.
The operator behind Think It Through
Christos Malamas stays close to the code and the business risk.
A founder-led technical operator with 8+ years shipping products—including 15+ delivered through Malamas Devs. Think It Through is his founder-led operating practice for the payments, launches, automations, and production systems where senior judgment needs to turn into hands-on delivery.
8+
Years shipping
15+
Products shipped
1M+
Startup capital raised
$100K+
Earned on Upwork
Independent marketplace proof · Top Rated Plus · 100% Job Success · 35 jobs · 3.8K hours
Where Christos works best
Business-critical systems with an actual forcing event.
AI and automation
Human-reviewed workflows, integrations, escalation rules, audit trails, and failure recovery around AI actions.
Production recovery
Evidence-led diagnosis across Next.js, APIs, databases, authentication, and half-finished integrations.
Technical ownership
A written priority, hands-on implementation, clear progress, and a handoff the existing team can continue.
Selected work · Aphra · Lead Engineer & Backend Owner
AI workflows become useful when humans retain control.
A proactive personal-AI system that turns signals across email, calendar, reminders, and connected services into prioritized, per-user insights and reviewable actions - not another chat interface.
The hard part was not generating text. It was maintaining enough cross-service context to detect what mattered, queue it for the right user, and create a safe action boundary before anything consequential happened.
Verify the original public case study- Backend ownership for capturing, prioritizing, and delivering per-user insights
- OAuth integrations that brought email, calendar, and contextual signals into one workflow
- A proactive detection loop that surfaced time-sensitive items before a user had to ask
- Review-first action flows with clear approve, edit, dismiss, and recovery boundaries
- Full-stack delivery across mobile, web, APIs, identity, integrations, and production edge cases
React NativeNext.jsNode.jsOAuthAI orchestrationEvent-driven workflows
Published client references
The repeated signal is fast delivery with clear communication.
“Malamas Devs did amazing work in a super quick and effective manner. Communication was on point and all deadlines were met. 10/10 would recommend.”
Andre Luque Costa
Founder & CEO, Terratec
“We hire Malamas Devs all the time — reliable and strong at communication. Looking forward to working with Christos again.”
Cham Ho
Founder, Alter Horizons
“Immediately grasped the concept and delivered promptly without any problem. Strongly recommend them for professionalism and quality.”
Ioannis
Software Developer
References are republished from Christos's existing Malamas Devs public work profile. They support delivery and communication; they are not a promise of a particular commercial outcome.
Current company role · separate from this offer
Co-Founder & CTO at GIMI
Christos is Co-Founder and CTO of GIMI, creator-partnership infrastructure for brands. This concise biography is the destination linked from GIMI. GIMI remains a separate company: its clients, systems, and metrics are not part of the Think It Through offer or its sales proof.
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Bring one revenue-critical blocker. Get the smallest justified next move.
The €250 triage is delivered within 24 hours and credited if agreed follow-on work starts within seven days. The monthly operator is €1,950/month, month-to-month, and capped at four active partnerships.