Summary
Athanasios Chliopanos is an instrumentation and automation systems engineer with over a decade of cross-disciplinary experience in industrial automation, process control, and embedded software across mining, oil & gas, and medical devices. He currently leads instrumentation and ESD systems engineering for Hellenic Petroleum’s Thessaloniki refinery, after directing automation and operations technology at Hellas Gold’s Olympias mine. Comfortable from FPGA prototyping to SCADA/ESD architectures and software integration with EMRs, he blends hands-on design with technical supervision and project delivery. Known for insisting on robust, well-engineered solutions (“quick and dirty? I would not like it”), he brings an uncommon combination of field operations insight and formal software/controls training from TU Eindhoven and AUTH.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Eng, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Dipl. Eng, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
EngD (Engineering Doctorate), Software Technology, EngD (Engineering Doctorate), Software Technology at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
English, Spanish, Dutch, French