Panagiotis Gkikopoulos
Senior Software Engineer at Fotokite
Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPanagiotis Gkikopoulos is a senior software engineer and PhD candidate specializing in the intersection of distributed systems and data science, with seven years of hands-on experience building reliable, data-driven architectures. He splits his time between R&D as a research assistant at Zurich University of Applied Sciences—collaborating with Swiss SMEs—and industry engineering roles, most recently at Fotokite and Terraview GmbH. His background blends software engineering and DevOps, enabling him to design resilient pipelines and production-ready distributed systems that bridge research prototypes and operational products. Based in Winterthur, he brings academic rigor to practical challenges, routinely translating complex research questions into deployable solutions. Notably, his career path shows a steady progression from web development to senior roles focused on system reliability and orchestration. He is finishing a PhD co-supervised by ZHAW and the University of Neuchâtel, signaling a deep technical specialization beyond typical engineering practice.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of PatrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Université de Neuchâtel
English, Greek, French, German
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Github Skills (29)
rating9
data-acquisition9
obsolete8
receipt-validation8
recurly8
storekit8
observation8
cloud-services7
billing7
in-app-purchase7
infrastructure6
aws6
truth6
metadata4
collector4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
serviceprototypinglab/mao-orchestrator
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Collaborative and resilient research infrastructure for observation, data acquisition and ground truth production
Contributions:117 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years
research-infrastructuredata-acquisitionobservationtruthresilient
serviceprototypinglab/dcc
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
Reproducible code/data for data-centric consensus
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
data-centricconsistencyconsensusreproducible
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