Tzanis Fotakis
Embedded Systems Engineer at Signaloid
Greece
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Top SchoolTzanis Fotakis is an Embedded Systems Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in microcontroller firmware, FPGA development, and embedded software for consumer electronics, scientific instruments, and light robotics. He combines low-level C expertise and hardware-software integration with VHDL/Verilog and Litex-based FPGA work, having ported SoM designs and created board-level examples for Lattice iCE40 devices. His background spans research-driven projects—UAV-assisted GNSS, robotic drilling, and tangible 3D GIS—where he implemented positioning algorithms, real-time firmware, and full-stack interfaces. Tzanis has a proven track record of debugging legacy codebases, improving battery efficiency and security in constrained devices, and building custom test rigs that cut debugging time from hours to minutes. He pairs academic rigour from a TUC MEng thesis on CNN inference accelerators on FPGAs with practical startup deliveries, including CircuitPython and ESP32 integrations and PLC interoperability. Based in Greece, he’s equally comfortable iterating on resource-constrained PIC/AVR systems and scaling modular firmware for broader Arm and nRF ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampIntegrated Master's Degree (MEng) Electrical & Computer Engineering Field: Electronics and Computer Architecture, Integrated Master's Degree (MEng) Electrical & Computer Engineering Field: Electronics and Computer Architecture at Technical University of Crete
English, German, Greek
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Github Skills (9)
machine-learning6
layout6
caffe5
deep-learning5
linux4
pytorch4
desktop4
hashcode3
electron2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TFotakis-ECE-TUC-Projects/MHL-Thesis-Latex-Template
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
Krith-man/preECESCON3-PDC
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:13 commits in 3 years 4 months
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