Stefanos Tsolakidis
President at Humanitarian Bank
Greece
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Top SchoolStefanos Tsolakidis is a seasoned technology and investments executive with over 30 years leading KLEOS S.A. and serving as President of Humanitarian Bank, focusing on high-technology consultancy and global investments from Greece. He blends deep academic rigor—a collection of advanced degrees across chemical, mechanical, aerospace engineering and technology management—with hands-on technical contributions, such as improving data robustness in the widely used Python cinemagoer package. Known for a pragmatic "code is better than words" approach, he couples strategic leadership with practical engineering sensibilities, often addressing edge-case reliability and data-cleaning issues. His background in aerospace and operations research gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on technology, risk and organizational strategy.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Honors, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Honors at Air Force Engineering UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace and Defence Technologies Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace and Defence Technologies Management at Middlesex UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Washington International UniversityMaster's degree, European Employee Relations and Human Resources Management, Master's degree, European Employee Relations and Human Resources Management at Keele UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aviation Technology History, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aviation Technology History at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish
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Github Skills (11)
error-handling10
regex10
python10
pdf6
permission6
bootstrap6
android6
if-statement6
django6
wkhtmltopdf6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cinemagoer/cinemagoer
May 2022 - May 2022
Cinemagoer is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb (to which we are not affiliated in any way) movie database about movies, people, characters and companies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stefanos primarily focused on improving the robustness of image URL handling within the `cinemagoer` package. They addressed potential errors by raising exceptions when regex matches failed, and introduced the ability to use custom regex patterns. Furthermore, the user made a change to remove double quotes from movie titles. These changes indicate a focus on improving the reliability and flexibility of the IMDb data retrieval and processing.
moviespythonmovie-databaseparserretrieve
tsaklidis/UserSanitize
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Extending default Django User model for extra fields. Includes user input sanitization, admin and forms.
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
pythonadmindjangouser-inputfields
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