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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 · Jul 2026—Present
Industrial Printing (Test Automation)SoftCom International · Nov 2025—Jul 2026
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Nikos Mavrapidis

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Selected work

Lope logo

AI startup · Co-founder, part-time · Oct 2025—Sep 2026

Lope

Recruiter-first AI workspace that turns role briefs and candidate evidence into ranked, explainable shortlists. Used in production by recruiting agencies.

  • Applied AI
  • Retrieval
  • Full-stack
Case study
Camelia Wellness homepage

Client platform · Full-stack · 2025

Camelia Wellness

Bilingual service and booking platform with SEO and versioned GCP/Cloudflare releases with rollback.

  • React
  • Node.js
  • GCP / Cloudflare
Case study
Worthify vehicle valuation form

Team project · 1st Greek AI Hackathon · Nov 2023—May 2024

Worthify

Team prototype: used-car valuation on 100,000+ listings; team-reported R² 0.97, ~6% median error.

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • REST API
Case study
Title screen of the ubiquitous computing exhibit

BSc thesis · NKUA · published Oct 2023 · exhibit 2026

Ubiquitous Computing Exhibit

Interactive museum exhibit that explains ubiquitous computing through a scrolling story, short quizzes, and camera experiments.

  • Web
  • Computer vision
  • Education
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More projects on GitHub

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Experience

Jul 2026—Present

Software Engineer · Space & Earth Observation

SoftCom International · European space project
  • Working on an Earth Observation project focused on satellite-data discovery, STAC catalogues, and retrieval/vector-search architectures for distributed geospatial datasets.

Nov 2025—Jul 2026

Software Engineer · Industrial Printing (Test Automation)

SoftCom International
  • Robot Framework UI and REST automation across four modules; Jenkins and Gradle/Maven builds.

Oct 2025—Sep 2026

Co-founder

Lope · AI recruitment startup · part-time, alongside SoftCom
  • 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—Dec 2025

Software Engineer · Industrial Printing (Java)

SoftCom International
  • 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.

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.

Nov 2022—Aug 2023

Military service

Hellenic Armed Forces

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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

    04

    Education & certifications

    Languages

    Greek
    Native
    English
    C2 (CPE)
    German
    B1 (ÖSD)

    Certifications

    Competitions

    • 1st Greek AI HackathonACEin · AUEB · 2024
    • MobileHCI student volunteerACM SIGCHI · 2023
    • Google Hash CodeAthens hub, NTUA · 2022