Nikolaos Athanasiou
Software Engineer at Meta
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNikolaos Athanasiou is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance C++ systems, cloud and distributed computing solutions, and Python tools across domains from CAD/CAE and geometric computing to banking, embedded IoT, and video processing. Currently on Meta’s Reality Labs Digital Humans team, he brings deep HPC and parallel-computing expertise honed at Ansys and BETA CAE Systems where he optimized and scaled simulation and geometry pipelines. His background combines civil engineering and computer science degrees with a postgraduate specialization in cloud computing from UT Austin, enabling a methodical, systems-level approach to complex engineering problems. Known for auditing and performance-tuning production code, he often sits at the intersection of algorithmic geometry and large-scale distributed systems — a blend that’s uncommon among generalist engineers.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Cloud Computing, Postgraduate Degree Cloud Computing at The University of Texas at AustinMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Master's degree Civil Engineering, Master's degree Civil Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, Italian, French, Greek
Stackoverflow
30,711reputation
3.4mreached
245answers
118questions
linux
top-1%
polygon
top-5%
vector
top-5%
javascript
top-5%
Github Skills (105)
template-metaprogramming10
linux10
redlock10
hiredis10
javascript9
redisai9
redis-client9
polygon9
pipeline9
parallel-processing9
ecmascript9
websocket-client9
multithreading9
cpp9
redis9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
picanumber/sanitizer_workflows
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 5 pushes in 3 months
picanumber/CODEine
Feb 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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