Konstantinos Karasavvas
Lecturer at Blockchain Meetup Thessaloniki
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantinos Karasavvas is a computer scientist and lecturer with over two decades of experience designing and architecting distributed systems, from academic multi-agent research to production blockchain solutions. He has led and mentored teams in both academia and industry, architecting practical systems such as the University of Nicosia’s open-source blockchain certificate platform and contributing to MIT Media Lab initiatives. A longtime Bitcoin adopter and organizer of Thessaloniki’s blockchain meetups, he blends hands-on development (Java, Python, Ruby, C/C++) with policy and standards work, having served as a Cyprus representative to the European Blockchain Partnership. His research background in service-oriented architectures, workflow systems and data streaming informs pragmatic, auditable designs for notarization and digital credentials. Beyond blockchain, he maintains broad interests in longevity, AI/robotics and AR/VR, signaling a curiosity for emerging tech that complements his applied system engineering.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusDiploma (First) Applied Informatics, Diploma (First) Applied Informatics at Pythagoras, Institute of Vocational Training
Greek, English
Github Skills (62)
low-level10
pdf10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
validate10
structures9
keybase9
cryptography9
blockchain9
cryptocurrency9
credentials9
litecoin9
client-library8
p2p8
service-client8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
karask/bitcoin-textbook
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Bitcoin Programming Textbook
Contributions:115 commits, 1 PR, 128 pushes in 2 years 6 months
verifiable-pdfs/blockchain-certificates-validation
May 2017 - May 2021
A simple webapp to validate PDF certificates published on the public Bitcoin blockchain.
Contributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years
pdfvalidationblockchaincertificatesbitcoin
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