University of Edinburgh

Researcher• October 2024 - Present

Conducting research related to software testing of AI and AI/ML compilers.

Oracle Labs

Research Associate/Intern• May 2024 - August 2024

Conducting research as a PhD Research Intern at Oracle Labs. Worked on a useful feature of Sandwood compiler. More on this soon...

Carbon Glance

Co-Founder & Technical Advisor• May 2024 - December 2024

Co-Founder & Lead Technical Coordinator• January 2022 - May 2024

Coordinated the design and development of the first two iterations of the Carbon Glance product, as well as provided strategic insights, guidance and consulting to the company.
As a result, Carbon Glance established a strong development team, capable of delivering successfully towards product development, while the company transitioned from concept to incorporation and clientele growth.
Key Responsibilities:

• • Established and coordinated a team of talented and strong developers - including two capable technical leaders.
• • Participated in important decisions and provided insights and guidance related to the product design and development.
• • Actively attended important events, meetings, potential lead calls and interviews related to the company growth, networking, and collaborations, acting both as company tech representative and co-founder.

The University of Edinburgh

Doctoral Student & Researcher• January 2021 - November 2024

Pursuing a Doctorate in Informatics, with focus on differential testing, fault localization, and repair of perception AI. My PhD advisors are Prof. Dr. Ajitha Rajan (University of Edinburgh) and Prof. Dr. José Cano Reyes (University of Glasgow).
I have also served as TA, demonstrator and tutor for the 3rd year undergraduate course "Software Testing", for 3 consecutive years.
In addition, I led InfMasters, an initiative to engage M.Sc. students with professional topics outside of the university curriculum, and I supervised 4 M.Sc. Students in their primary projects. Note: Thesis complete, pending viva voce.

Workable

Software Engineer• September 2018 - April 2021

Worked as a full-stack Software Engineer (focus on back-end development), using a variety of technologies and cutting-edge frameworks. Languages used: JavaScript, PHP, Ruby. My work included, but was not limited to active participation on the development of the custom, brand new Workable and Resources websites, the implementation of a comprehensive testing suite framework for the marketing assets of the company, enabling CI/CD, the design and implementation of a custom AMP framework compartible with NextJS/ReactJS for the marketing site of Workable, the refinement and orchestration the analytics integration mechanism for various marketing-related assets, and the design and development from scratch of a comprehensive component responsible for the integration with a third-party search service and the display of real-time results, considering term error-proneness and proper data manipulation.
It is also worth noting that my work duties involved extensive communication and collaboration of people from different departments and teams, consisting of professionals with diverse skills and backgrounds, both at technical and non-technical level.

Accenture

Software Engineer• March 2018 - August 2018

Worked on CMT industry, focused on the area of systems integration, using well-known Oracle technologies. Additionally, I worked on custom process automation solutions that assisted into productivity increase of my team.

PeopleCert Education

Coding Bootcamp Educator (Contract)• January 2018 - June 2018

Served as an Educator of PeopleCert Education (Previously AFDEmp) 6-month period Coding Bootcamp 4, teaching programming technologies and principles to new developers of age 20 - 50, mainly coming from totally different professions. My area of specialization was Front-end development and .NET technologies. I am happy that a very, very large percentage of my students were employed to well-renown companies (official numbers show that Bootcamp students employability reaches 95%).

Hellenic Army

Software Developer - Analyst• June 2017 - January 2018

Actively contributed on the development of two Content Management Systems, using .NET technologies (C#, Entity Framework, ASP.NET Razor), SQL and Angular 2.

ICS - FORTH

Software Engineer, Graduate Research Associate• June 2014 - May 2017

Worked as a Software Engineer in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, making research and development on state-of-the-art educational and IOT-enabled smart environments, with a focus on their programmability and testing. Technologies used: C#, MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS), Entity Framework, WPF, OpenAPI Swagger Specification, Mocha, Chai, HandlebarsJS, CodeMirror, Tern Code Autocompletion Engine and more.

JoinWeb

Web Development Intern• November 2013 - February 2014

Worked as a web development intern in JoinWeb. Worked on five great web projects, using server and client side web technologies such as PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and more, along with well-known Content Management System and responsive design APIs and Frameworks, following user friendly and responsive design principles.

ICS - FORTH

Undergraduate Research Assistant• June 2013 - February 2014

Implemented User Interface and Transceiver Locating system components for an emergency communications system. Technologies used: Java, Swing API.

University of Crete

Web Development Intern• January 2013 - August 2013

Implemented the mobile web application of the University of Crete, including both its front-end and back-end management system that integrates a smart mechanism of content management and presentation. Technologies used: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, REST APIs.

StackOverflow

Established Community Member• September 2013 - October 2023

Volunteered for 10 years as established community member of Stack Overflow, the biggest Q&A community Stack Exchange site for programmers, with an estimated impact of over 3.4 Million people reached and a reputation of over 5800, consistently ranking at the top 7% of the platform.

[Volunteer] Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Program Committee Member (Reviewer) - Special Track on Safe, Robust and Responsible AI• August 2023 - Present

Serving as reviewer for the Special Track on Safe, Robust and Responsible AI of AAAI 2024, the flagship conference in AI.

[Volunteer] KDE

Junior Contributor• July 2012 - September 2012

Fixed some minor bugs for Telepathy, an Instant Messaging Suite for KDE, version 0.5.