AI startup · Co-founder · 2025—2026
Lope
Recruiter-first AI workspace that turns role briefs and candidate evidence into ranked, explainable shortlists. Used in production by recruiting agencies.
Case study (opens in a new tab)Software Engineer · Systems & Applied AI
Nikos
Mavrapidis.
I build reliable systems and AI products, from embedded networking to satellite data and retrieval.
Space & Earth ObservationSoftCom International · Aug 2026—Present
Co-founderLope · Oct 2025—Sep 2026
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Selected work
Client platform · Full-stack · 2025
Camelia Wellness
Bilingual service and booking platform with SEO and versioned GCP/Cloudflare releases with rollback.
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1st Greek AI Hackathon · 2023—2024
Worthify
Used-car valuation trained on 100,000+ listings: R² 0.97 and ~6% median error, served through a REST API.
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BSc thesis · Computer vision
Adaptive Museum Experience
Context-aware museum prototype driven by browser-based computer vision, evaluated with 13 participants.
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Experience
Aug 2026—Present
Software Engineer · Space & Earth Observation
SoftCom International · European space project- Satellite data discovery built on Earth Observation metadata, STAC catalogues, and cloud imagery archives.
- Earth Observation training through NASA ARSET.
Oct 2025—Sep 2026
Co-founder
Lope · AI recruitment startup- Built the retrieval stack: hybrid search on Milvus, rank fusion, and RAG with verified citations.
- Owned the production architecture: Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL with row-level security, and CI.
- In production with recruiting agencies; 98.7% enrichment success across ~3,000 profiles.
Jun 2025—Jul 2026
Software Engineer · Industrial Printing
SoftCom International · Java developer, then test automation- Delivered a backend and front-end module extension and modernised legacy modules.
- Led a critical memory-leak investigation from profiling to fix and regression tests.
- Built Robot Framework UI and REST automation across four modules; maintained Jenkins and Gradle/Maven builds.
Dec 2023—Jun 2025
Software Engineer · Embedded Linux & Networking
SoftCom International · telecom client- Built carrier-grade embedded Linux networking software in C/C++ on an IP/MPLS routing platform.
- Delivered Hitless Software Upgrades, cutting upgrade downtime from hundreds of milliseconds to zero.
- Integrated a third-party routing stack; validated control and data planes with Wireshark and Spirent.
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Skills
AI & retrieval
- Hybrid search & rank fusion
- Vector databases (Milvus)
- RAG & LLM integration
- Reranking
- STAC / EO metadata
Systems
- C/C++ · embedded Linux (Yocto)
- IP/MPLS, TCP/IP
- Java, Python, Bash, SQL
- TypeScript, Next.js, React
Testing
- Robot Framework & Selenium
- REST & UI automation
- Playwright
- VisualVM profiling
Delivery
- Jenkins / GitLab CI
- Gradle, Maven, Artifactory
- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- AWS & GCP
2017—2022
BSc Informatics & Telecommunications
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens240 ECTS · Grade 7.67 / 10
Thesis (opens in a new tab)Languages
- Greek
- Native
- English
- C2 (CPE)
- German
- B1 (ÖSD)
Certifications
- AWS Certified AI PractitionerAWS · 2026
- Decoding DevOps (60+ hours)Udemy · 2026
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals · Cyber Defense ArchitectureIBM · 2026
- Introduction to Cybersecurity · Networking Basics · Networking DevicesCisco · 2025
- Networking Basics and SecurityIBM · 2025
- MPLS L3VPNEmployer-funded · 2024
- Software Engineering Basics for Everyone (opens in a new tab)IBM · edX · 2023
- High-Dimensional Data Analysis (opens in a new tab)HarvardX · edX · 2023
Competitions
- 1st Greek AI HackathonACEin · AUEB · 2024
- MobileHCI student volunteerACM SIGCHI · 2023
- Google Hash CodeAthens hub, NTUA · 2022