Apostolos Vailakis
FPGA Acceleration Engineer
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolApostolos Vailakis is an FPGA Acceleration Engineer with nine years of experience in digital and computer architecture, system verification, and embedded systems, currently leading hardware development at Signaloid in Cambridge. Trained as an Electrical and Computer Engineer at the Technical University of Crete, he pairs academic depth with practical project delivery—from industrial PLC automation to bespoke FPGA acceleration solutions. He has entrepreneurial and full-stack instincts evidenced by a freelance web development venture building Django/Nuxt.js product stores and an active maker presence on Thingiverse. Comfortable bridging hardware and software, Apostolos brings hands-on verification rigor and system-level design thinking to performance-critical applications. Colleagues describe him as a connector who amplifies technical communities, a trait honed while chairing the IEEE student branch and running workshops that introduce new technologies to peers.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technical University of Crete / Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης
Greek, English, German
Github Skills (28)
fpga8
octoprint8
eda7
3d-printer6
xilinx6
python6
raspberry-pi5
snappy5
vitis5
hardware5
machine-learning4
printer4
deep-learning3
soc3
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
almidi/ESPRemote
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
almidi/SpeakerSpoofingCNN
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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