Dimitra Giantsidi
Researcher at Microsoft
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDimitra Giantsidi is a researcher and systems engineer with nine years of experience focused on distributed storage, secure transaction processing, and operating systems. Currently at Microsoft after multiple research internships there and a research assistantship at the University of Edinburgh, she bridges deep academic research (PhD work) with practical engineering in industry. Her background spans hands-on software engineering early in her career and advanced systems research, giving her a rare perspective on building storage systems that are both scalable and verifiable. Based in Cambridge, UK, she specializes in the intersection of cloud storage architectures and security guarantees, and often explores how theoretical guarantees translate into deployable services. An under-the-radar strength is her continuity across academia and industry, enabling rapid prototyping of research ideas into production-minded solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Systems, Secure Transaction Processing, Distributed & Operating Systems, PhD in Computer Systems, Secure Transaction Processing, Distributed & Operating Systems at The University of EdinburghDiploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (59)
foundationdb10
transactional10
key-value-store10
embeddable10
cat10
acid9
llc9
database9
distributed-database9
fpga8
director8
tcp8
bigtable8
perl8
esxi8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dgiantsidi/Libvirt-VMs-cgroups
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
dgiantsidi/CCF-bench
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Confidential Consortium Framework
Contributions:241 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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