Nikos Fotiou
Chief Executive Officer at ExcID
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolNikos Fotiou is a technology leader and researcher with 13 years of experience, currently serving as CEO of ExcID and pursuing research in self-sovereign identity (SSI) and access control. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Athens University of Economics and Business, where his work on ICN architectures focused on privacy, access control, and data authenticity. Combining academic rigor with startup leadership, he bridges cutting-edge research and product strategy to commercialize identity and access solutions. Trained in internetworking at KTH and originally educated in information and communication systems engineering, he brings deep protocol-level and systems thinking to identity problems. Based in Greece, he is notable for translating a long-standing research thesis into operational ventures that address real-world privacy and access-control challenges.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Internetworking, MSc, Internetworking at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDeploma, Information and Communication Systems Eng., Deploma, Information and Communication Systems Eng. at University of the Aegean
French, English
Github Skills (116)
python10
internet10
charm10
prototyping10
rfc10
libcoap10
cryptography10
encryption9
coap9
credentials8
remix-ide8
solidity8
smart-contracts8
remix8
proxy8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SOFIE-project/Privacy-and-Data-Sovereignty
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Privacy and Data Sovereignty component
Contributions:74 commits, 36 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 years 9 months
securitydata-sovereigntyprivacy
SOFIE-project/identity-authentication-authorization
Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
Identity, Authentication and Authorization Component
Contributions:62 commits, 18 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 9 months
authenticationauthorization
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