Romanos Skiadas
Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Athens, Attica, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolRomanos Skiadas is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building networking software at Arista Networks from Athens with a background in electronics and information engineering from Imperial College London. He has deep experience in SDN and cloud integration from his work on OPNFV and BGP-VPN solutions using OpenDaylight, OpenStack and Quagga, and a history of low-level C work on embedded audio projects during a research placement. An active open-source contributor, he has improved front-end widgets for the Awesome Window Manager and strengthened test automation for the widely used Flycheck Emacs project, demonstrating both UX attention and QA rigor. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors, bug fixes that improve reliability, and a habit of improving developer tooling and tests behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic and Information Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic and Information Engineering at Imperial College London
English, Greek
Github Skills (15)
lua10
web-widgets10
awesomewm10
puppeteer10
elisp10
emacs10
widgets10
syntax-checking10
puppet10
flycheck10
testing9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
regex8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
flycheck/flycheck
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
On the fly syntax checking for GNU Emacs
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 11 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Romanos primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure of the project. This includes adding and modifying tests for Puppet parser errors and ensuring existing tests function correctly. The contributions also involve updating and refactoring existing test suites, alongside fixing bugs related to test execution and dependencies. Overall, the user's efforts centered around increasing the reliability and maintainability of the Flycheck project's testing framework.
elispripgrepsyntax-checkinggnu-emacschecking
streetturtle/awesome-wm-widgets
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Romanos primarily contributed to the `mpris-widget`, focusing on improving its functionality and user experience. They fixed bugs related to incorrect API calls and regular expressions for parsing player output. The user also refactored the code by removing dead code, renaming variables, and improving the display of information within the widget. Further enhancements included correcting the display of the play/pause icons and implementing notification features.
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