Summary
Stefanos Koutoupis is a research software engineer with nine years of experience blending backend development, DevOps practices, and applied research in multimodal representation learning. Based in Athens, he has delivered production-ready services and DevOps roadmaps for NGOs and public-sector projects while contributing research-grade prototypes that bridge thesis ideas to collaborative publications. He is proficient in Python, service-oriented architectures, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure automation and observability, and often takes end-to-end ownership from MVP architecture to deployment. At FORTH he translated practical system-level perspectives into research on multimodal retrieval, seeding ongoing collaborations beyond the original project scope. Colleagues describe him as a curious, hands-on engineer who fosters teamwork and smooth transitions during operational handovers. He also brings a less-obvious blend of signal-processing experience from his guitar tablature transcription thesis, informing creative solutions in audio and multimodal domains.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Crete
Master of Engineering - MEng electrical and computer engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng electrical and computer engineering at National Technical University of Athens