Tasos Chalikias
Principal Software Engineer Technical Lead at Information Technologies Institute (CERTH - ITI)
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolTasos Chalikias is a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Lead with 14 years of experience building distributed systems, privacy-first AI pipelines, and immersive XR products from research prototypes to production-grade commercial platforms. Based in Thessaloniki, he architects zero-trust, sovereign architectures—designing peer discovery protocols, federated OpenSearch clusters, and a TypeScript middleware proxy that asynchronously enriches assets with AI services to keep UIs responsive. He combines low-level performance work (GPU-accelerated ML kernels) with cloud-native engineering—introducing Docker, CI/CD, NVIDIA Triton inference ops, and cost-saving dynamic model loading for GDPR-compliant RAG systems. His leadership spans EU research consortia and spin-off commercialization, translating consortium requirements into runnable roadmaps and sub-15-minute node instantiation for partners. Tasos also has a strong HCI and accessibility pedigree, shipping gesture-driven mobile apps and WebGL-based 3D authoring tools that democratize VR content creation. A pragmatic researcher-engineer, he pairs academic rigor (Master’s in Digital Media – Computational Intelligence) with hands-on product delivery across AI, cloud, and XR domains.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer Informatics Engineering & Telecommunications, Software Engineer Informatics Engineering & Telecommunications at International Hellenic UniversityMaster's degree Digital Media - Computational Intelligence, Master's degree Digital Media - Computational Intelligence at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Greek, French
Github Skills (47)
material-design-icons10
android10
reward10
remote-control9
ios9
material-design9
stratum9
modification9
libsvm9
vdm8
joomla-component8
obj8
miner8
joomla-extensions8
zcash8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MKLab-ITI/CUDA
Oct 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
cudacomputationkernellibsvmgpu
MAMEM/prototype-interfaces-training
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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