We live in an era where “digital transition” has become a national slogan. And yet, for those of us who serve it daily — not with slogans but with code, architecture, and real deployment — the journey often feels like trench warfare.
If you’ve spent decades designing systems, building from scratch, tracking new technologies and tailoring them to your country’s realities, then you know: technology isn’t the problem. The problem is everything around it.
Obstacles Without a Name
It’s not competitors stopping you because they have a better product.
It’s those who block you with inferior — or even non-existent — solutions.
They do so not out of technical merit, but because they fear your progress.
They fear that if your work gains visibility, it will prove that real solutions exist — just not from the “right” circles.
When the Work Doesn’t Matter
How many times have you offered a solution that:
- Solves a real problem
- Costs less
- Is more secure
- Is already battle-tested in the field
…and yet, it gets bypassed in favor of something that doesn’t even exist yet — or never will.
Why?
Because results don’t matter. What matters is the process — and who controls it.
Innovation Outside the Club
The truth is, Greece is not lacking in people who can build.
It’s lacking in mechanisms that allow them to operate without constantly being pulled back.
That’s why most end up either:
- Leaving the country
- Adapting to the system, or
- Paying the price of independence
We Keep Building
I chose the third option.
To keep creating — even when it’s not always visible.
To push forward, not because I enjoy conflict, but because nothing changes otherwise.
Greece won’t become digital just because the brochures say so.
It will happen when the people who build technology can actually offer it — without fighting shadows.
Footnote
We belong to those who are evaluated by their work, not by their name — to those who seek solutions, not excuses.
We just don’t make a lot of noise.
We build.
