MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Technical University of Crete, Chania, 2014-2021

Embedded Software Engineer

Cicicom Ltd, 7/2022-11/2023

• Integrated radar into Gen 2 parking spot sensor, improving accuracy from 91% to nearly 100% and optimizing battery life; comparison with Bosch and Fleximodo equivalents demonstrated higher accuracy.
• Utilized STM32 MCU ecosystem on a PCB with I2C, SPI, and UART communications, featuring BLE, electromagnetic, and LoRaWan / NBIOT communication modules.
• Streamlined verification and setup firmware for parking sensor PCB, reducing process time from 5 to 1 minute, significantly saving factory production time and reducing associated costs.
• Developed a GUI application for SSH communication with Raspberry Pi to automate PCB flashing and testing, accelerating the assembly line process.
• Contributed to Gen 3 PCB development, adding new features and improving component selection.
• Established DevOps pipelines with Jenkins and SonarCloud, enhancing workflow and code quality.
• Developed a LoRaWAN data analytics tool using Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib, processing over 1 million payloads from 300+ sensors. This tool was instrumental in securing a major project by identifying critical issues and is now a cornerstone in the company’s monitoring process for all new projects, ensuring ongoing success and reliability.
• Led testing for Gen 2 sensor, creating scripts for automated data processing and boosting productivity.

Research Assistant

MHL, Technical University of Crete, 2/2021-8/2024

• Accelerated Convolutional Neural Networks training using FPGAs(Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU102). Developed a Tensorflow model, replicated it in C++, and integrated into Vitis HLS for Vivado IPs
• Achieved 1.5x acceleration over CPU, outperforming GPUs (7.8x) and CPUs (16.55x), demonstrating significant improvements in machine learning inference on FPGAs. Paper submitted to IEEE.

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