Konstantinos Karasavvas
Lecturer at University of Nicosia
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 (48)
low-level10
pdf10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
validation10
blockchain10
credentials10
keybase9
cryptography9
cryptocurrency9
litecoin9
p2p8
chat8
webapp8
end-to-end-encryption8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
verifiable-pdfs/blockchain-certificates
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
Used to create, issue, revoke, or validate certificates (or any other PDF file) on the public Bitcoin blockchain.
Contributions:138 commits, 4 PRs, 93 pushes in 5 years 1 month
bitcoinblockchainpdfcertificatescredentials
karask/fantasy-d100
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:222 commits, 292 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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