Georgios Nikolaidis

I'm Georgios, a recent graduate of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens, currently working as a Technical Student in CERN's Microelectronics Section. In my studies and research, I'm particularly interested in working at the intersection of hardware and software. Outside of work, I enjoy upgrading my home server, flying my drone, and trying not to ski into a tree.

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Experience

08/2025 - Present

Geneva, Switzerland

Technical Internship

CERN — Microelectronics Section

RTL design of a radiation-hard Ethernet MAC IP for CERN's first Microcontroller ASIC.
Bare-metal network stack for handling TCP/UDP Ethernet packets in C.
Contributed to SoC-Make, a CMake/Python-based build system for hardware and software co-design.

07/2024 - 08/2024

Geneva, Switzerland

Summer Internship

CERN — Microelectronics Section

Developed a custom bootloader for a RISC-V-based SoC in Assembly and C++ to enable FPGA emulation.

10/2022 - 01/2025

Athens, Greece

Lab Teaching Assistant

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Guided 100+ students through Introduction to Programming and Data Structures lab courses.

Education

BSc Informatics & Telecommunications

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

9.11 / 10 top 3% of university

09/2021 - 06/2026 · Athens, Greece

Relevant coursework: Systems Programming, Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, Cybersecurity.
Thesis: Firmware emulation platform on Linux-based IoT devices using QEMU.

Skills

SPEC-SHEET

U1 Languages

C
C++
Python
RISC-V Assembly
TypeScript
HTML / CSS

U2 Hardware & EDA

RTL Design (Verilog/VHDL)
FPGA Prototyping
ASIC Design
SoC Architecture

U3 Systems & OS

Linux Kernel
Bare-metal Firmware
QEMU
CMake
Bash

U4 Software & Infra

React
Python-Flask
PostgreSQL
Docker
Nginx
CI/CD

Projects

02/2025 - 06/2026

FEMU

Thesis

Supervisor: Thanassis Avgerinos

Firmware emulation platform built on QEMU. Enables fast, secure, and scalable analysis of Linux-based IoT device firmware with minimal setup effort.

PythonQEMUBinwalkBashDynamic AnalysisVulnerability Research

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10/2021 - Present

Homelab

Self-hosted homelab for Linux and Proxmox servers, used to run VMs, containers, and self-hosted services for storage, networking, and remote access.

ProxmoxDockerLinuxKVMWireGuardNginxTraefik

09/2024 - 01/2025

KNN Search Engine

Vamana graph-based indexing algorithm for efficient Approximate Nearest Neighbour search with label-based filtering, greedy traversal, and robust pruning.

C++MultithreadingGraph IndexingANN

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01/2023 - Present

DitLab

Live

Student resource platform that has helped 1000+ students excel in their exams. Full-stack web app with containerized deployment and CI/CD.

Python-FlaskPostgreSQLDockerNginxCI/CDBootstrap

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09/2024 - 01/2025

Nanny Finder

Full-stack application allowing guardians to find, connect, and hire nannies. Built as part of a UI/UX university course.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsViteFirebase

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10/2023 - 01/2024

Extendible Hash Table

Extensible hash table for a DBMS to optimise file indexing and storage management, improving disk page allocation, record lookup, and retrieval efficiency.

C++HashingFile IndexingStorage Management

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09/2023 - 02/2025

UoaBot

Automated Python grading platform that tracks students' assignment progress and manages competitive project leaderboards. The website has 120K+ views and 300+ active students.

PythonTypeScriptReact

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