Summary
Georgios Sakkas is a software engineer and recent PhD graduate in Computer Science (UCSD) now building GPU VM reliability at Google Cloud, bringing nine years of experience across research and industry. His PhD work in programming languages focused on neurosymbolic program repair and synthesis, combining formal methods with modern LLM-driven code tools. He has honed applied research skills through internships at Microsoft, AWS, and Bloomberg, contributing to interactive code generation, taint-aware static analysis, and automated refactoring for legacy code. Comfortable moving between theory and production, he has implemented static-analysis extensions, control-flow refactoring tools, and semantics work on concurrency during his earlier research. Based in Seattle, he blends academic rigor with cloud-scale engineering, uniquely positioning him to turn program-analysis research into practical developer-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, German