Georgios Katsikas
Technical Project Manager at UBITECH
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorgios Katsikas is a Technical Project Manager and systems researcher with 11 years of experience designing high-performance, cloud-native networking solutions for 5G and beyond. He holds a Ph.D. from KTH and has published at top systems conferences (NSDI, CoNEXT), where his work demonstrated line-rate NFV service chains at 100 Gbps using commodity hardware while minimizing latency. At UBITECH he leads development of a TM Forum–aligned service and resource orchestrator, combining Kubernetes, GitOps, P4-programmable SDN fabrics and SmartNIC acceleration on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA infrastructures. He is an active contributor to foundational networking projects such as ONOS, DPDK and Click, improving backend stability and device-level flow management in widely used platforms. Comfortable moving between deep performance tuning and product delivery, he brings an uncommon blend of academic rigor and hands-on engineering in programmable network stacks.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Communication Systems and Networks, 8.62/10 (ranked first in my class with honors), M.Sc., Communication Systems and Networks, 8.62/10 (ranked first in my class with honors) at Department of Informatics and Telecommunications (NKUA)Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySenior high-school (Second level of education), Basic education, 19/20, Senior high-school (Second level of education), Basic education, 19/20 at First senior high school of Levadia, Viotia, Greece
Greek, English, French
Github Skills (10)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
device-driver10
server10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
server-side10
network-programming9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Georgios primarily contributed to the backend of the Open Network Operating System (ONOS) project. Their work involved fixing bugs in the HTTP controller, enhancing the flow rule service with new methods, and improving the performance of the REST device provider. Additionally, the user made significant changes to the server device driver, including improvements to device discovery, statistics reporting, and the ability to manage flow rules on network interface cards. The user's contributions aimed to improve system stability, functionality, and the overall user experience.
ospfopenflowbazeloperating-systemnfv
gkatsikas/dpdk
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:560 pushes, 22 branches, 66 tags in 3 years 8 months
development-kitplanedata-plane
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