# Hellenic Development

> Developer infrastructure company founded by Gerasimos Maropoulos, creator of the Iris web framework for Go. Products span AI tooling, web frameworks, and identity management.

## Key Facts

- Founded in 2025 by Gerasimos Maropoulos (GitHub: kataras) and Christos Papadopoulos
- Gerasimos Maropoulos wrote the Iris web framework for Go, first released in 2016
- Iris has 25,564 GitHub stars and 2,429 forks as of 2026-08-11, licensed BSD-3-Clause
- Iris is at version 14.0.0, published as the Go module github.com/kataras/iris/v14 and requiring Go 1.26 or later
- Three shipping products: Plexon AI, Iris, Hellenic Identity
- Two products in development: RNS (push notification gateway) and Patrol (error tracking)
- Consulting focus: privacy-preserving AI, Go systems, and regulated industries
- The hellenic.dev website uses no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no advertising cookies

## Products

- [Plexon AI](https://plexon.ai/): Private desktop AI assistant for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 12 personas, 156 agents, 64 app connectors used with your own accounts, and a marketplace of 7,100+ items. Memory, dashboards, workflows, and scheduled jobs. Runs from the local machine on a stateless server.
- [Iris](https://iris-go.com/): Open-source web framework for Go. An application builder the compiler checks step by step, 20 typed path parameter types, dependency injection, one central error map, and 30 middleware packages in the same module. BSD-3-Clause.
- [Hellenic Identity](https://id.hellenic.dev/): Self-hosted identity and access management. OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and post-quantum cryptography using ML-KEM (Kyber) and ML-DSA (Dilithium).

## Pages

- [Home](https://hellenic.dev/): Company overview, products, values, and services
- [Plexon AI](https://hellenic.dev/plexon-ai/): Personas, the marketplace, app connectors, automation, modes and providers, the local-first architecture, and how to get started
- [Iris](https://hellenic.dev/iris/): The builder chain, what ships in the core, installation, and upgrading from v12
- [Hellenic Identity](https://hellenic.dev/identity/): Protocols, cryptography, admin panel, and deployment
- [Open Source Projects](https://hellenic.dev/projects/): Public repositories by Gerasimos Maropoulos
- [Contact](https://hellenic.dev/get-in-touch/): Consulting and enterprise enquiries

## Services

- AI Integration and Privacy Architecture: AI systems with verifiable privacy guarantees for regulated environments.
- System Architecture and Engineering: Go backends, microservices, and security-first design for finance, healthcare, and government.
- Team Enablement and Knowledge Transfer: Hands-on workshops covering Go, AI tooling, and systems architecture.
- Rapid Product Development: Production-quality MVPs delivered in weeks.

## Team

- Gerasimos Maropoulos, Founder & CEO. Creator of Iris. Over a decade of Go development. https://github.com/kataras
- Christos Papadopoulos, Co-Founder & CMO. Brand and strategic direction. https://www.linkedin.com/in/christos-papadopoulos-a82477311

## Open Source

- [Iris on GitHub](https://github.com/kataras/iris): Source for the Iris web framework
- [Iris on pkg.go.dev](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/kataras/iris/v14): API reference
- [GitHub organisation](https://github.com/hellenic-development): Hellenic Development repositories

## Contact

- Email: contact@hellenic.dev
- Contact form: https://hellenic.dev/get-in-touch/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hellenic-development
- X: https://twitter.com/MakisMaropoulos

## Optional

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