Apostolos Mavropoulos
Blockchain Developer at Evergon
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolApostolos Mavropoulos is a blockchain developer with a decade of engineering experience, currently contributing to multiple crypto and identity projects while based in Athens. He pairs hands-on firmware and hardware security expertise—evident from sustained open-source work on microcode extraction, BIOS/UEFI utilities, and Intel ME analysis—with production blockchain development roles at companies like AllianceBlock, NexeraID, and Evergon. His background in electrical and computer engineering informs a low-level fluency that helps bridge firmware reverse-engineering and distributed systems. Apostolos has maintained and enhanced repositories that handle complex binary formats and CPU microcode databases, showing attention to performance, compatibility, and tooling for security research. Comfortable across back-end and full-stack tasks, he leverages command-line tooling and Python to automate intricate firmware workflows while shipping blockchain features. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings uncommon firmware domain depth to decentralized application development.
10 years of coding experience
Engineer's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7.18, Engineer's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7.18 at National Technical University of Athens
Github Skills (25)
uefi10
python10
file-manipulation10
firmware10
bios10
filetype10
file-conversion10
file-operations10
binarydiff10
file-format10
code-analysis10
fileio10
file-handling10
database-management10
modification10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
platomav/CPUMicrocodes
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Intel, AMD, VIA & Freescale CPU Microcode Repositories
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:196 commits, 4 PRs, 281 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Apostolos's contributions primarily involved updating microcode databases for various Intel and AMD CPUs, as well as a few VIA and Freescale CPUs. The commits involve significant binary file modifications, likely related to CPU microcode updates, focusing on incorporating changes from a source database (MCE DB). The user appears to have maintained and updated these CPU microcode files.
amdfreescale
platomav/MCExtractor
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Intel, AMD, VIA & Freescale Microcode Extraction Tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:345 releases, 2 reviews, 380 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Apostolos's commits primarily focus on maintaining and enhancing the microcode extraction tool. They implemented features to extract and convert Intel microcode containers, including handling various file formats and conversion processes. The user also addressed bug fixes, improved performance, and updated the database used by the tool. Their work involved improvements to AMD, VIA, and Freescale microcode support and added enhancements to the display of microcode information.
amdfreescale
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