Christos Gkantidis
R&D Engineer Senior Staff at Synopsys Inc
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolChristos 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.
11 years of coding experience
7 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
Github Skills (92)
parallel10
rubiks-cube10
python10
multithreading10
photo10
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
vim-plugin10
telegram10
backup10
meter10
javascript10
pandas10
duplicate-detection10
classify10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
christosg88/cpp-concurrency
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cgkantidis/pocket-cli
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
A CLI (Command Line Interface) for Pocket (getpocket.com)
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
clicommand-line-interfacegetpocketpocket
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