Summary
Nikos Kostopoulos is a Linux systems engineer and electrical/computer engineer with a PhD in network management and cybersecurity and eight years’ experience building and securing research and production infrastructures. He has hands-on expertise in Linux administration, virtualization (ProxMox, VMware ESXi), containerization, network equipment (Cisco IOS), automation and monitoring, gained through long-running European research projects (notably GÉANT) and lab operations. His research focused on DDoS mitigation and malware propagation prevention, and he has applied those findings to real-world deployments, including Dockerized services and enterprise cybersecurity practices at the Hellenic Centre for Defence Innovation. Comfortable coding in Python and Java, he bridges research and engineering by developing data pipelines, ELK-based analytics, and AI-driven network management prototypes. Selected for a military role because of his doctoral work, he combines academic rigor with practical infrastructure delivery and a knack for turning experimental network security research into operational systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Engineering Network Management & Cybersecurity, PhD in Engineering Network Management & Cybersecurity at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English