Nikolaos Vastardis
Principal Engineer (Digital Services) at GLA Research & Development
Colchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNikolaos Vastardis is a Principal Engineer and Research & Innovation lead with over a decade of experience designing scalable software and systems for maritime and aviation domains. He currently heads Digital Services at the General Lighthouse Authorities’ R&D directorate, shaping e-Navigation, S-100-aligned services and cross-organisation standards work with IALA and IHO. Nikolaos combines deep academic expertise—a PhD in delay-tolerant networks—with hands-on delivery of microservices, cloud-native operations (AWS, Kubernetes), and full-stack systems used in production. He has led teams to migrate legacy MRO platforms to horizontally scalable architectures and built predictive tools and ML pilots for maintenance optimisation. Comfortable bridging research, procurement and operational stakeholders, he also maintains practical lab and infrastructure experience from rack servers to embedded platforms like Raspberry Pi. Colchester-based and research-minded, he brings a rare mix of formal networking theory and pragmatic engineering that accelerates standardisation into deployable maritime services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Socially-Aware Routing in Delay-Toletant Mobile Social Networks, PhD, Socially-Aware Routing in Delay-Toletant Mobile Social Networks at University of EssexBachelor, Informatics and Telecommunications, 7.15/10, Bachelor, Informatics and Telecommunications, 7.15/10 at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
Greek, English, German, Turkish
Github Skills (34)
java9
connectivity9
api9
jaxb8
rabbitmq-client7
rabbitmq6
service-discovery6
fairness-ml6
nebular6
ais5
portal5
xml5
backbonejs5
azerothcore5
odk5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gla-rad/ServiceRegistry
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
MCP (Maritime Connectivity Platform) Service Registry API
Contributions:2 reviews, 266 commits, 83 PRs in 1 year 8 months
connectivityapiservice-registryapi-registrymaritime-connectivity-platform
gla-rad/eNav-Config
Jun 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 17 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 8 months
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