Nick Filippakis

Experience

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  Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Research Intern

  - Analysed 157K Youtube sessions using specific metrics (e.g. rebuffering, bitrate, number of skips, video watching percentage etc.)- I was named co-author of the paper by the research supervisor, Dr. Maria Papadopouli, due to my significant number of findings- Took the initiative to create a machine learning algorithm, to predict the abandonment of Youtube videos on the side of the project, which was highly valued and suggested it be the object of another research project next year

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  IBM

  Jun 2019 - Jun 2020

  Software Developer

  IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software | Daeja Viewone- Worked full-time while completing my final year at university full-time - Contributed mainly to IBM’s "Daeja Viewone" product, a document viewer used by multiple large corporations, written in Java- Took the initiative to create a custom Jenkins visualisation tool using Javascript and Ruby, in order for the team to easily identify flaky tests on the nightly builds- Won the internal Hackathon, between all 70 IBM interns of the year- Worked on the Hackathon winning idea of reducing food waste with the relevant internal teams, with a goal to implement it and provide it as an IBM service Show less

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  Beacon

  Oct 2020 - Mar 2022

  - Took the initiative to setup a system of automatically triggered pipelines, fully integrated with all microservices and notification systems to run nightly unit/integration tests, making sure of cross-service functionality between commits- Extended the aforementioned pipelines to automatically update and commit dependency locks safely once a week- Drove the completion of the ElasticSearch integration in absence of the project owners- Promoted within 10 monthsTech Stack: Java(SpringBoot), AWS, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Docker and React.js Show less

  • Software Engineer II

    Aug 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Software Engineer

    Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
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  Cord

  Apr 2022 - Feb 2024

  Software Engineer
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  Rooser

  Mar 2024 - now

  Software Engineer