Vasilis Balafas

Software Enginer, PhD Student in Computer Science

Univeristy of Western Macedonia

Biography

Vasilis Balafas is a PhD Student in Computer Science at the University of Western Macedonia. His research interests include machine Learning, constraint programming, optimization, cloud computing and programmable matter.

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Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Constraint Programming
Optimization
Cloud Computing
Software Engineering

Education

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 2024

Univeristy of Western Macedonia
MEng in Computer Engineering and Telecommunications, 2021

Univeristy of Western Macedonia

Skills

PHP

Javascript

ReactJS

Laravel

Java

Python

Docker

AWS

Experience

Software Engineer

UpcoMinds

Jul 2019 – Oct 2021 Athens - Remote

Development of H2020 ICARUS Decision Support System (Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, CouchBase)
Application containerization and deployment with Docker
Automatization of simulations of the atmospheric models of ICARUS (WRF-CHEM, CAMx)
Development of yiota mobile app using React Native (JavaScript, React, Redux, Sagas)
Enikos.gr website development (ASP.NET, C#, Symfony, PHP, Node.js, MongoDB)
Zambon Connect Belgium development (PHP, MySQL, MailChimp)
Zambon Connect Switzerland development (ReactJS, Node.js)
ClickInShop.online Development (WordPress, PHP)
BEST HPC Cloud platform (ReactJS, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes)
CI/CD (CircleCI, Jenkins, BitBucket pipelines)
TDD
Scrum/Agile

Software Engineer & Server Administrator

ETL - University of Western Macedonia

Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 Kozani

Delivered the following European H2020 and FP7 research projects: * HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) * ICARUS (Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems)

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

ONEUP Host

Jan 2017 – Jun 2020 Thessaloniki

Planning, design, development, management, maintenance, and support of the cloud-based solutions of the company.
Ensuring infrastructure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of service.
Troubleshooting incidents, identifying the root cause, fixing and documenting problems, and implement preventive measures.
Migrating multi-tier applications on our cloud infrastructure.
Implementing cost-control strategies.
Educating the team on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives.