Georgios Nikolaidis

BSc student in Informatics & Telecommunications (top 3% GPA) at NKUA, currently working as a Technical Student at CERN's Microelectronics Section. I design radiation-hard silicon and write bare-metal firmware — and I'm equally at home in systems software and web infrastructure.

Geneva, Switzerland CERN Microelectronics

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Experience

EXP-001 08/2025 - Present

Geneva, Switzerland

Technical Student

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.

EXP-002 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.

EXP-003 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.
Built UoaBot: automated Python grading platform with React/TypeScript frontend — 120K+ views and 300+ active students.

Education

EDU-001

BSc Informatics & Telecommunications

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

9.16 / 10 top 3% of university

09/2021 - Present · Athens, Greece

Specialising in systems software, computer architecture, and distributed systems.
Thesis on firmware emulation of Linux-based IoT devices using QEMU.

Notable courses: Operating SystemsImplementation of DBMSDistributed Systems

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

PRJ-001 02/2025 - Present

FEMU

Thesis

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

PythonQEMULinux KernelBinwalkBashARM/MIPS

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PRJ-002 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++MultithreadingMakefile

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PRJ-003 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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PRJ-005 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

PRJ-004 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++

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Publications

PUB-001 Conference

Design and evaluation of TriglaV: a prototype SoC ASIC for particle physics applications realized with the SOCRATES platform

Anvesh Nookala, Marco Andorno, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Benoît Denkinger, Georgios Nikolaidis

TWEPP25 / JINST 21 · 2026

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Contact

// OPEN TO OPPORTUNITIES

Let's work together.

I'm looking for internships, research collaborations, and interesting problems — especially at the intersection of hardware and systems software.

EMAIL [email protected]