Vaggelis Atlidakis
Assistant Professor at Crash Override
Psikhikón, Attiki, Greece
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Top SchoolVaggelis Atlidakis is an assistant professor and software engineer with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and applied security engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia and has combined postdoctoral research at Brown with hands-on roles at Lacework and startups to build scalable code-analysis and API security tooling. Currently split between an academic appointment at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and engineering at Crash Override, he brings a research-driven approach to production security problems. His background includes internships and contracts at Microsoft and research work at CERN, evidencing comfort across industry and high-energy research environments. Vaggelis is notable for turning deep technical investigation into practical automated testing and analysis systems, a skill honed while founding systems engineering efforts at Levo.ai. Based in Psikhikón, Greece, he blends rigorous scholarship with pragmatic engineering and a taste for conversational quirks (ask him to speak in ancient languages).
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science , Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia University
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Github Skills (43)
docker10
python10
testing10
restler10
security10
marketplace10
api10
rest10
stability10
rest-api10
cloud-services10
reliability10
cart9
machine-learning9
pixelfed9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vatlidak/vatlidak.github.io
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:125 pushes in 4 years 5 months
vatlidak/WebGoat
Jul 2023 - May 2024
WebGoat is a deliberately insecure application
Contributions:20 PRs, 15 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
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