Fotis Nikolaidis
Head Of Cloud And Infrastructure Services at Superduper
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
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Top SchoolFotis Nikolaidis is Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Services with seven years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed storage, hyperconverged infrastructures, and automation for cloud-to-edge environments. With a PhD and a string of prestigious fellowships (CERN, MSCA ITN/Individual), he bridges deep research in programmable I/O and consistency models with pragmatic DevOps and backend delivery. He led integration efforts that let Kubernetes run on HPC Slurm clusters, built Kubernetes-based testing and IoT emulation platforms, and contributed to widely used tooling such as Singularity/Apptainer for secure image signing. At Superduper he combined backend and DevOps work—adding MongoDB Docker Compose support, JupyterLab integrations, and improved logging—to help ship an end-to-end AI application framework. Credited with helping organisations obtain ISO27001 and ISO16363 certifications, he blends rigorous security and audit discipline with experimental R&D. Based in Heraklion, Greece, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and production-focused engineering that speeds research into deployable systems.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Science - MS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of CreteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Software Engineering at Université Paris-Saclay
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Github Skills (17)
docker10
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mongodb-database9
devops9
llmops9
mongodb9
mlops8
cicd8
jupyter7
llm7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
superduper-io/superduper
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Superduper: End-to-end framework for building custom AI applications and agents.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:79 reviews, 276 PRs, 193 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Fotis primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration of the SuperDuperDB framework. Their work included adding Docker Compose support for MongoDB, modifying the installation scripts for the project's JupyterLab extensions, and implementing features to facilitate the building of a theme for JupyterLab. Additionally, they updated the codebase to incorporate a new logging mechanism with Loguru. Moreover, the user performed version bumps and improved the build system.
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fnikolai/superduperdb
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
SuperDuperDB: Build and deploy AI on your datastore!
Contributions:15 PRs, 558 pushes, 234 branches in 10 months
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