Nikos Koukis
Senior Robotics Product Engineer at SLAMcore Limited
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolNikos Koukis is a Senior Robotics Product Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building SLAM and perception systems, currently driving product development at SLAMcore. He codes predominantly in C++, Python and Rust and has turned open-source research into deployable robot software as a long-time core developer and GSoC mentor for MRPT. His academic background in mechanical engineering and a thesis on single- and multi-robot graphSLAM underpin a practical blend of control theory and software engineering. Comfortable across embedded, server and legacy Linux stacks, he has repeatedly moved algorithms from prototype to real-world robots. Based in Thessaloniki, he combines open-source stewardship with product-focused engineering, often preferring pragmatic, testable implementations over purely academic proofs.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraEngineering Science, Engineering Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyUdacityMaster’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 8.39, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 8.39 at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, German
Github Skills (48)
caldav10
console10
launcher-application10
google-keep10
google-tasks10
task-management9
asana9
linux9
bash9
windows9
command-line9
android9
bsd9
taskwarrior9
documentation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bergercookie/vim-dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:110 commits in 4 years 6 months
slamcore/slamcore-utils
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
🛠️ SLAMcore SLAM Utilities
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 2 months
pythonrobotics
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