Christos Papachristou
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer | Cloud & IoT
Salary / Daily rate
Athens, Greece
Mobility: Munich, Barcelona, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
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About me
Intro
Embedded and cloud systems expert with 20+ years across marine IoT, avionics, and space applications. Led technology teams at DeepSea Technologies, architected ISO-certified systems, and delivered solutions from CERN to commercial marine platforms. Specialized in ARM/Linux embedded systems, FPGA design, and scalable cloud architectures for mission-critical applications.
Work experience
DeepSea Technologies
Jun 2019 - Oct 2024
5 years 5 months
Athens, Greece
Director of Technology
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
1 year 4 months
Athens, Greece
IoT Director
Jun 2019 - Jul 2023
4 years 2 months
Athens, Greece
Direction and supervision of a team designing hardware and software for commercial marine systems performing data acquisition, edge processing, control and transmission. Direction and supervision of installation teams commissioning marine data acquisition systems and operational procedures Supervision of ISO27001 certifications Supervision and architecture of cloud infrastructure Supervision and architecture of industrial/marine embedded Linux systems. Participation in DNV marine certifications
Senior Systems Engineer
METIS Cyberspace Technology
Nov 2016 - May 2019
2 years 7 months
Athens, Greece
Embedded system design, architecture and implementation (u-boot/kernel/base OS) Design and implementation of CI and SOTA architectures for IoT systems Design and supervision of IEC and ISO27K certification procedures Information security expert in data monitoring systems and services - CISO GIS data processing and interfacing
Network Design Engineer
Rea Group Hotels
Jul 2014 - May 2016
1 year 11 months
Installation and upgrade of network infrastructure. Design and installation of wired and wireless components based on functional specifications. Consulting, design and implementation of failover and high-availability strategies.
Prisma Electronics SA
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
10 months
Athens, Greece
Systems Engineer
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
3 months
Athens, Greece
Design and implementation of kernel and user space software for a mobile worker supervision embedded system based on the ARM architecture. PCB prototype verification and testing.
Systems Engineer
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
10 months
Athens, Greece
Architecture and design of embedded IMU system for space applications based on the LEON processor. FPGA implementation of LEON SPARC soft-processor on Xilinx devices. Linux kernel porting and main user level software architecture. PCB prototype design, verification and testing. Design and construction of wheeled prototype robotic platform for the testing of the IMU.
Systems Engineer
Talos Avionics
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
7 months
Heraklion, Greece
Design and construction of hardware and software for embedded navigation systems for aviation purposes based on the ARM-CortexM architecture. Design of company's IT infrastructure and services
Systems Engineer
CERN
May 2013 - May 2014
1 year 1 month
Geneva Area, Switzerland
Design and construction of hardware and software for embedded systems based on the ARM architecture Design of computer vision algorithms System architecture of vision based hardware/software solutions
Systems Engineer
NOVOCAPTIS, Cognitive Systems & Robotics
Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
2 years 1 month
Greece, NY 14626, USA
Design and construction of hardware and software for a mobile worker supervision embedded system based on the ARM architecture.
Systems Engineer
T.C. Geomatic LTD
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
1 year 1 month
Dilekkaya
Design and construction of an improved mobile cartography system.
Systems Engineer
KAPOU S.A. GEOINFORMATICS
Jan 2010 - Jan 2011
1 year 1 month
Greece, NY 14626, USA
Design and construction of hardware and software for a mobile platform used for cartography. The system is mounted on a car and consists of -3 pairs of stereoscopic cameras -2 LIDARs -Inertial navigation unit -High accuracy GPS sensors
Electrical and Computer Engineer
CERTH
Jan 2005 - Jan 2010
5 years 1 month
Greece, NY 14626, USA
Construction and maintenance of the cluster infrastructure of the Information Processing Laboratory Vision related algorithms programming in parallel and distributed environments (OpenMPI, SGE)
R&D Engineer
ICS-FORTH
Sep 2002 - Jul 2005
2 years 11 months
Greece, NY 14626, USA
Software and Hardware design. PCBs, PIC microcontrolers, Linux kernel drivers, Computer Vision. Design and construction of a robotic platform http://www.ics.forth.gr/cvrl/robots.html#peleas
Education
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
PhD
2005 - 2011
6 years 1 month
Panepistimio Kritis
MSc
2002 - 2004
2 years 1 month
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Diploma
1996 - 2001
5 years 1 month