Experience

Founded a Greek STEM community dedicated to making science, technology, engineering, and mathematics accessible and engaging for broad audiences.

• Shipped a production-ready website Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) automation via GitHub Actions and Git-based version control within the first month, establishing a zero-manual-deployment publishing pipeline from day one.
• Architected content production pipelines using Python, Bash scripting, and AI-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — specifically OpenAI Whisper — to automate transcription and content preparation, significantly reducing the time required to produce and publish dissemination assets.
• Built and maintained the community's full technical infrastructure including web hosting on Cloudflare, enabling reliable, scalable delivery for a growing STEM audience.

Drove public dissemination of research project outcomes, translating complex technical results into content accessible to non-specialist stakeholders and general audiences.

• Led public dissemination of research project outcomes — converting complex technical findings into accessible content for non-specialist and general audiences, meeting formal communication deliverables and extending project reach.

Contributed to the EDGELESS EU-funded research project, spanning both technical research and project management for secure edge computing.

• Delivered a working Proof of Concept (PoC) within the first month of joining the project, demonstrating rapid ramp-up from research brief to functional prototype.
• Advanced from PoC to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) by month five, iterating hardware and software to meet the project's secure edge computing requirements.
• Submitted and published a peer-reviewed research contribution by month nine — compressing the full arc from initial prototype to scientific publication into under a year.
• Enabled edge nodes with Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX)-capable hardware to execute code inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), advancing the project's core security architecture.
• Researched trusted code separation inside containers and evaluated alternative virtualization approaches including WebAssembly (WASM) for constrained edge environments.
• Investigated Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration support from lightweight virtualized environments on edge devices, expanding the platform's compute capabilities.
• Coordinated project activities including plenary meetings and code camps, and supported dissemination via demo videos, blog posts, social media, and academic-format documentation.

Served as team leader during advanced recruit training in a high-accountability, mission-critical environment.

• Led a 16-person team through advanced recruit training, coordinating execution against defined objectives and resolving blockers under strict time and operational constraints.
• Made independent, time-sensitive decisions in a structured, mission-critical environment — developing disciplined judgment and accountability under sustained pressure.

Delivered hardware bring-up, firmware, drivers, and cross-platform tooling across embedded software, Android, USB communication, and low-level ARM SoC development.

• Architected and implemented a Linux kernel module for Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) communication with a proprietary sensor, enabling reliable low-level hardware integration from user space.
• Developed a native Android library and companion application for sensor operation and real-time data acquisition, bridging embedded hardware with a mobile platform.
• Engineered STM32 firmware for a proprietary board to manage I/O peripherals including Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM), Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C), and Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI).
• Built a Windows desktop application to control the board over USB Virtual COM Port (VCOM), providing an internal validation and debugging interface for the hardware team.
• Designed a USB communication protocol and a custom cross-platform C++ library targeting STM32-based boards, standardising hardware-host communication and reducing integration effort across platforms.
• Implemented bare-metal System-on-Chip (SoC) device drivers and contributed to Board Support Package (BSP) development, extending platform coverage to new hardware targets.
• Contributed to updating a Python wrapper for a cross-platform C++ library to support a newer API version, ensuring continued compatibility and reducing integration friction for downstream consumers.

Restored and maintained a Java web application during a summer internship, resolving build failures and improving documentation.

• Diagnosed and resolved systemic build failures in an inherited, non-functional Java web application within the first month — identifying root causes across the build pipeline and restoring full operational functionality, directly unblocking active development.
• Updated and improved technical documentation to increase clarity and support knowledge transfer for the team.
• Maintained source code integrity throughout the internship period, ensuring a stable handoff at close.