Nikos Papailiou
Principal Software Engineer at Aisera
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolNikos Papailiou is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating distributed storage and data systems, currently leading engineering at Aisera. He holds a PhD in Distributed Databases from the National Technical University of Athens and combines deep academic grounding with hands-on production experience from roles at TileDB and Google. At TileDB he contributed significant backend and DevOps work—most notably adding HDFS support and cloud storage integrations to a widely used universal storage engine—demonstrating expertise across filesystems, build systems, and cloud tooling. Known for solving low-level performance and integration challenges, he bridges research-grade distributed systems design with pragmatic implementation and deployment. Based in Greece, he brings a steady record of shipping robust storage features and automations that simplify running complex data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Distributed Databases, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Distributed Databases at National Technical University of Athens
Github Skills (20)
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c-language10
hdfs10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
aws9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
s3-bucket9
data-structures9
typed-array7
devops7
multidimensional-arrays7
dockers7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TileDB-Inc/TileDB
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
The Universal Storage Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikos primarily contributed to integrating HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) support within the TileDB storage engine. They implemented HDFS filesystem API methods, including read, write, and directory operations, and added corresponding tests. The user also developed scripts for installing Hadoop and configuring the environment, demonstrating DevOps skills. Furthermore, the user fixed build and linking issues and configured AWS-S3 access, suggesting expertise in cloud storage solutions.
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