Senior Software Engineer and Systems Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, edge computing, and cybersecurity. Specializing in Go, cloud-native architectures, and Linux-based edge platforms. Currently contributing to the open-source LF Edge/EVE (Edge Virtualization Engine) project, building and maintaining edge computing infrastructure that powers IoT and enterprise edge deployments worldwide. Strong track record in real-time data platforms, microservices design, Kafka-based messaging, and database optimization. MSc in Cybersecurity with 13 peer-reviewed publications. Experienced in release engineering, CI/CD automation, and cross-functional collaboration in open-source ecosystems.
Apr 2025 - Present
San Jose, CA (Remote)
Edge computing company building the orchestration layer for the distributed edge, powering EVE-OS — an open-source edge virtualization engine under the LF Edge umbrella.
Apr 2025 - Present
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Heraklion, Greece
Independent consulting — secure software development, backend systems, and cybersecurity research.
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Stockholm, Sweden (Remote)
Global leader in fine-grained authorization, providing Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) solutions.
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Zug, Switzerland (Remote)
Cybersecurity startup specializing in security analytics, risk assessment, and compliance solutions for EU-funded research projects.
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
Heraklion, Greece
Institute of Computer Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), one of Greece’s leading research institutions.
Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
Chania, Greece
Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete.
Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
EU-funded project addressing cybersecurity challenges in the healthcare sector. Led project management activities coordinating research and development tasks across consortium partners.
EU-funded project developing an autonomous system for comprehensive patient monitoring in long-term care, using AI and FHIR-based interoperability standards.
EU-funded project creating a personalised health monitoring platform for elderly people, enabling proactive health management through wearable devices and FHIR-based data exchange.
EU H2020 project developing a comprehensive platform for smart energy grid management, providing advanced tools for demand response and energy efficiency in smart buildings.
EU-funded project creating a collaborative platform for industry and academia to exchange knowledge on cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection across European sectors.
EU H2020 project developing an enabling framework for circular economy driven IoT systems, focusing on semantic interoperability and lifecycle management of connected devices.
EU-funded project developing assurance methods and tools for security and resilience of critical infrastructures and services, including risk assessment and mitigation techniques.
EU H2020 project developing an IoT platform for smart city applications, enabling intelligent management of urban resources including energy, water, and mobility.
EU H2020 project developing a semantic interoperability framework for IoT ecosystems, enabling heterogeneous IoT platforms to communicate through standardised ontologies and linked data.
EU H2020 project developing an SDN/NFV-based architecture for wind parks, enabling virtualised, programmable control and management of industrial wind park networks.
EU-funded project developing an open-source, integrated simulation framework for parallel and distributed embedded systems, combining network and processor simulation.
ARTEMIS JU project developing an embedded systems security framework for composite SPD (Security, Privacy, Dependability) in networked embedded devices.
Active open-source contributor to the Edge Virtualization Engine (EVE) under the Linux Foundation Edge umbrella. Contributions include Go-based system services, release engineering, hardware compatibility improvements, and CI/CD pipeline maintenance.
Designed and built a suite of AI coding agent skills (init, zed-plan, zed-execute) implementing a spec-driven development workflow. The tooling was adopted as part of the ZEDEDA AI-Native Team Transition Playbook, improving development velocity and consistency across engineering teams.
Architected and developed Go-based backend services for a real-time cybersecurity threat intelligence platform at Sphynx Technology Solutions. The system processes live threat feeds using Apache Kafka pipelines and persists structured threat data in MongoDB and PostgreSQL, enabling near-real-time threat detection and response.
A bot written in Go for automatically retweeting EU project dissemination activities. Monitors configured search terms and hashtags, then retweets relevant content to amplify project visibility.
Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) are becoming popular communication environments for intelligent transportation systems. This paper presents MobileTrust, a framework for secure knowledge integration across vehicular networks using semantic technologies and trust management.
Interoperability stands for the capacity of a system to work with or use the parts or equipment of another system. This paper proposes a secure semantic interoperability framework for IoT applications leveraging linked data principles and ontology-based data models.
Cyber security is always a main concern for organisations across all sectors. This paper presents the THREAT-ARREST platform, a comprehensive cyber-security training environment combining serious games, emulation, simulation, and visualisation to improve security awareness.
This paper presents end-to-end semantic interoperability mechanisms for IoT environments, enabling heterogeneous IoT platforms to exchange data through ontology-based models and semantic translation services.
This paper proposes a pattern-driven approach for managing security, privacy, dependability, and interoperability (SPDI) in IoT environments, providing reusable architectural patterns that address common IoT deployment challenges.
This paper presents a set of architectural patterns for secure IoT orchestrations, enabling the systematic design of IoT systems with built-in security properties through reusable design patterns.
A comprehensive review of security and privacy challenges in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), covering threat landscapes, existing protection mechanisms, open challenges, and future research directions for securing medical IoT deployments.
This paper presents WARDOG, a host-based detection system for botnet infections that monitors process behaviour, network activity, and system calls to identify infected hosts without requiring network-level visibility.
An extended review examining the intersection of IoMT security, privacy, and circular economy principles in bioinformatics applications. Identifies protection concerns and proposes research directions for securing bio-medical IoT in circular economy contexts.
This paper proposes a holistic framework addressing the four key challenges for IoT deployments: security, privacy, dependability, and interoperability (SPDI). The framework defines a layered architecture and identifies key requirements for each dimension.
This paper investigates how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can serve as an enabler for circular economy principles through Hybrid-Logic Processes (Hy-LP), analyzing how IIoT data and connectivity can support resource efficiency and waste reduction.
XSACd presents a cross-domain resource sharing and access control framework for smart environments, enabling secure and controlled access to IoT resources across different administrative domains through federated identity and policy mechanisms.
A comparative study of standardized IoT communication protocols (MQTT, CoAP, XMPP, AMQP) evaluated over a common M2M application benchmark. The paper provides quantitative performance metrics and recommendations for protocol selection based on use-case requirements.
