Summary
George Nomikos is a Customer Technical Support Engineer at Kentik with a decade of experience bridging research-grade Internet measurement and hands-on product support. He brings deep protocol expertise (BGP, TCP/IP, TLS) and practical skills in traffic analysis, large-scale measurement platforms (RIPE Atlas, CAIDA, PEERING) and tooling like BGPStream, tcpdump and Docker. Formerly a lead R&D engineer at FORTH, he led teams that simulated routing anomalies and analyzed network security incidents, translating research into operational insights. Based in Heraklion, Crete, he combines academic lecturing experience in SDN with product-facing support, making him fluent in both technical explanation and customer outcomes. An IXP and facilities enthusiast, he’s comfortable moving between low-level packet analysis and product workflows to help detect and remediate complex network behaviors.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Crete, Department of Computer Science
Master's degree Computer Science - Networking and Telecommunications, Master's degree Computer Science - Networking and Telecommunications at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
Erasmus Scholarship Computer Science, Erasmus Scholarship Computer Science at ETH Zürich
English, French, Greek