Summary
Christos Gkantidis is an R&D Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance software for EDA at Synopsys (and predecessor Mentor Graphics), specializing in C++, Python, Tcl-Tk, MATLAB and Linux. Grounded in a Dipl. Ing. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a stint as a PhD researcher on placement legalization, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery on complex placement and automation problems. He has progressed through engineering levels into a staff role, consistently shipping research-driven features into production-grade tooling. Based in Grenoble, he brings a systems-minded approach to performance and scalability, often translating theoretical placement techniques into optimized, deployable implementations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ing., Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Dipl. Ing., Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.)
English, Greek