Education


Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Ph.D. in Distributed Systems - (HiPEDS) programme / 2015-2019
— Thesis: Supporting Long-Running Applications in Shared Compute Clusters (pdf)
Supervisor: Peter Pietzuch

Department of Computing, Imperial College London
M.Res. Advanced Computing / 2014-2015
— Thesis: Bridging the Gap between Serving and Analytics in Scalable Web Applications (pdf, slides)
Supervisor: Peter Pietzuch

Computer Science Department, University of Crete
M.Sc. Parallel and Distributed Systems / 2012-2014
— Thesis: A Distributed Key-Value Store based on Replicated LSM-Trees (pdf, slides)
Supervisor: Kostas Magoutis

Computer Science Department, University of Crete
B.Sc. Computer Science / 2007 - 2012
— Thesis: Design and implementation of an auto-configuring wireless sensor network service (pdf)
Supervisor: Kostas Magoutis

Work Experience


Software Engineer, Cloudera
November 2019 - Present
part of the Data Warehouse team, working on query runtime optimizations for Apache Hive

Graduate Researcher - Department of Computing, Imperial College London
October 2014 - October 2019
affiliated with the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) group

Research Internship, Microsoft
June 2017 - September 2017
worked with Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) Systems group in Sunnyvale, CA

Research Internship, Microsoft
June 2016 - September 2016
worked with Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) Systems group in Mountain View, CA

Infrastructure Engineering Internship, Morgan Stanley
July 2013 - September 2013
worked with Application Management team part of Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering group

Graduate Researcher, ICS-FORTH
August 2012 - August 2014
affiliated with Computer Architecture and VLSI (CARV) Laboratory, ICS-FORTH

Undergraduate Researcher, ICS-FORTH
June 2011 - July 2012
affiliated with Computer Architecture and VLSI (CARV) Laboratory, ICS-FORTH

Service


Member of the Posters Program Committee for - ACM SoCC'19
Member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for - SOSP'19
Member of the PVLDB Reproducibility Committee - VLDB Reproducibility'18
Reviewer for IEEE's Transactions on Services Computing - 2017, 2018, 2019
Member of the Shadow Program Committee for - EuroSys'17

Distinctions & Awards


Best Student Paper Award - 33rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2014)
Ph.D. Scholarship - CDT HiPEDS - Imperial College London / 2014 - Present
Graduate Research Fellow - ICS-FORTH / 2013 - 2014
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Scholarship - University of Crete / 2013 - 2014
Summer school attendance Grant - HiPEAC / Spring 2013