Marios Nikolaou is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering robust software and infrastructure, currently building at Spotify from 2014 onwards. Trained as a PhD physicist in statistical and theoretical physics, he brings deep expertise in large-scale Monte Carlo simulations and data analysis to software architecture, CI/CD and release engineering. He has a strong DevOps background across Python, C/C++, Jenkins and cloud tooling, and is a Certified ScrumMaster who helps teams adopt agile practices. Marios combines low-level systems experience (real-time embedded work early in his career) with large-product scalability, making him adept at bridging research-grade numerical computation and production-grade engineering. Colleagues value his problem-solving rigor and penchant for improving team processes and toolchains.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical Physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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