George Theodoropoulos
Technical Manager at Data Science Lab, Univ. Piraeus (DataStories)
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Theodoropoulos is a technical manager and researcher with 10 years of experience blending data science, databases, and machine learning, currently leading technical efforts at ITML while pursuing a PhD in edge data processing. He has a strong academic-industrial track record at the University of Piraeus and DataStories, contributing to Horizon 2020 projects, co-authoring papers (including an ECML PKDD workshop acceptance), and building practical tools for mobility and spatio-textual data analysis. Hands-on engineering work includes developing a minimal educational DB with locking, indexing and join support and implementing a custom GPU scheduler for parallel DNN training, revealing a rare mix of low-level systems and ML infrastructure skills. He also teaches applied database and GIS courses, turning research into reproducible, hands-on curricula for students. Based in Athens, he combines rigorous research standards with a playful engineering spirit—he’ll both optimize your queries and good-naturedly critique weak code.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data processing/analytics/management at the Edge, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data processing/analytics/management at the Edge at University of Piraeus
Github Skills (10)
databases10
btree10
relational-databases10
database-design10
python10
sql-database10
database10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DataStories-UniPi/miniDB
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
An extremely minimal DB that can be used for educational purposes and rapid prototyping
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 131 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:George primarily contributed to the `minidb` repository by adding functionality to the core table class. They implemented updates for insert and delete operations, ensuring the data was refreshed after these modifications. Further development involved adding a database class and a test script. The user also added locking mechanisms to ensure data integrity, and implemented functions for index creation, data selection, and joins, demonstrating a focus on database functionality and features.
data-analysispythonsqlprototypingrapid-prototyping
DataStories-UniPi/Trajectory-Synopses-Generator
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
flinkstreamingapachebig-dataspark
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