Christos Palaskas
Software Engineering Manager at Shielded Technologies
Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristos Palaskas is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience leading teams that build production-grade systems across automotive, computer vision, and blockchain domains. He currently leads Rust engineers working on Cardano Partner Chains and previously progressed from HMI and autonomous-driving projects for GM and Ford to engineering and test leadership at IOHK. Christos blends deep systems-level C++/Qt and embedded experience with modern blockchain development practices and a data-science-informed mindset from University of Washington coursework. He has authored scientific publications and shipped Android, vision, and infotainment software, giving him a strong foundation in both research and product delivery. Outside work he runs a Cardano staking pool and creates educational content about decentralization, signaling hands-on operator experience with the networks he helps build. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who moves smoothly between low-level engineering detail and team-level delivery.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Data Science, Certificate Data Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (BSc) Information and Communication Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information and Communication Systems at University of the Aegean
English, Greek
Github Skills (40)
solidity9
plutus9
ada9
cardano9
smart-contracts8
blockchain8
ethereum8
contract8
graph8
security8
chain8
terraform7
evm7
aws7
dfinity6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrispalaskas/cardano-skepsis-toolbox
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 61 commits, 16 PRs in 11 months
cardanopythontoolboxcardano-clicli
chrispalaskas/chrispalaskas
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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