Petros Pissias
Application And Systems Engineer
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolPetros Pissias is an application and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating ground software for space missions at the European Space Agency’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt. His career grew from hands-on Java and integration work in industry to leading data systems and application engineering for mission-critical ground station monitoring and control. He combines a strong academic foundation in distributed systems and complex systems architecture (Lancaster University, MIT xPRO) with practical expertise in systems integration, network administration, and software delivery. Known for translating operational requirements into reliable ground software, he brings deep institutional knowledge of ESA workflows and an ability to bridge legacy systems with modern architectures. An early background in academic research and military informatics gives him a pragmatic, security-aware perspective that helps keep spacecraft operations robust and traceable.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science - Advanced Distributed Systems, Master's degree, Computer Science - Advanced Distributed Systems at Lancaster UniversityBachelor's degree, Informatics and Telecommunications, Bachelor's degree, Informatics and Telecommunications at National & Kapodistrian University of AthensArchitecture of Complex Systems - Professional Certificate, Systems Engineering, Architecture of Complex Systems - Professional Certificate, Systems Engineering at MIT xPRO
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Github Skills (15)
protobuf10
serialization10
protocol-buffers9
protoc9
rpc9
interchange8
marshalling8
data-interchange7
dtrace6
solaris6
java5
fits1
object-detection1
computer-vision1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ppissias/AstrometryNetLib
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 12 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 4 months
ppissias/SpacePixels
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 31 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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