Dimitris Daskalakis
IT Specialist at Freelance
Region of Crete, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolDimitris Daskalakis is an IT specialist with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering networking, virtualization and embedded systems solutions across hospitality and freelance projects in Crete. He combines practical field skills—PTP links, Mikrotik routing, server/NAS deployment and disaster recovery—with software and hardware troubleshooting honed through repairs and industrial diagnostics. As a contributor to the popular ESPEasy project, he added IR and AC protocol support and improved low-level timing, encoding and JSON handling for ESP8266/ESP32 devices, showing deep embedded and back-end integration expertise. Comfortable leading IT operations as an IT manager and teaching technical courses at the university level, he emphasizes pragmatic problem-solving, open-source tool creation and teamwork. Notably, he pairs academic rigor from an MSc in Networking and Wireless Telecommunications with a do-it-right mindset: fix it once, correctly.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Networking, Wireless and satelite Telecomunications, Master's degree, Networking, Wireless and satelite Telecomunications at Technological Educational Institute of Crete
English
Github Skills (9)
json10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino10
esp826610
el9
ec9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
letscontrolit/ESPEasy
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Easy MultiSensor device based on ESP8266/ESP32
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 125 commits, 63 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dimitris contributed significantly to the `letscontrolit/espeasy` repository, adding support for IR (Infrared) based remote control and air conditioning (AC) features. Their work included the addition of various AC protocols, expanding the plugin's functionality. The user also addressed issues related to the internal workings of the IR and Dallas sensor integrations, refining its handling of timings, encoding, and JSON processing. They were involved in fixing the bugs as well as the refactoring of existing code and adding the features requested, showcasing a good understanding of the system and its integration with hardware.
esp8266iotesp32
jimmys01/ESPEasy
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Easy MultiSensor device based on ESP8266
Contributions:12 PRs, 34 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
spiffsdevice-managementesp8266tasmotaespressif
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