Employment History
Tech Co-Founder & CTO — SafeNav
2025 – Present · Cyprus · Remote
Maritime autonomy high-tech startup. Software and hardware chain. Building perception and decision-making systems for vessel safety in complex waterways.
Head of Engineering — Andle Engineering Ltd
2016 – Present · Remote / San Francisco / Milano / Cyprus
Technology consultancy providing remote CTO and Head of Engineering services to startup teams. Two CTO roles, two Head of Engineering roles, plus individual contributor work.
- Team leadership and project management
- Executive team reporting
- Python, C/C++, Ansible, Linux, AWS
- Network architecture design and API design
- OS hardening and cybersecurity
- Cryptography and networking protocol design
- Raspberry Pi and embedded OS customisation (Yocto, Debian)
Software Engineer — Albourne Partners
2012 – 2016 · Cyprus
Engineer in a multi-million dollar global production environment for financial research.
- DevOps and Linux administration
- Java, Python, and Unix/Linux shell
- Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines
- PostgreSQL
- Team co-leadership and project management
Head of Department (Computer Science) — Intercollege Larnaca
2009 – 2012 · Cyprus
Day-to-day operational management and leadership of 8 staff and 100 bachelor’s degree students from local and international backgrounds.
Senior Software Engineer — Transitive / IBM
2006 – 2008 · Manchester
Senior engineering staff in a Manchester University startup working on cross-processor virtualisation. (Successful exit — acquired by IBM.)
Electronic Engineer — MBDA
1993 – 2001 · Stevenage & Filton, UK
Full engineering apprenticeship (1993–1998, Filton), then continued part-time during university holidays (1998–2001, Stevenage).
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Electronics Engineering — The University of Sheffield, 2002–2006 Thesis: “Elasticity, lattice dynamics and parameterisation techniques for the Tersoff potential applied to elemental and type III-V semiconductors”
- MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering — The University of Sheffield, 1998–2002 Thesis: “Automatic design of digital circuitry using Genetic Algorithms”
Publications
- Comprehensive Approaches to Enhance Maritime Wireless Networks: A Survey — Conference Proceedings of iSCSS, Nov 2024
- Under pressure: Control of strain, phonons and bandgap opening in rippled graphene — Carbon, Sep 2015
- Atomistic modelling of elasticity and phonons in diamond and graphene — 13th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), Oct 2013
- Elastic and vibrational properties of group IV semiconductors in empirical potential modelling — Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Sep 2013
- Empirical interatomic potential for the mechanical, vibrational and thermodynamic properties of semiconductors — Journal of Physics, Jan 2012
- ZigBee wireless quality trials for smart meters — Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, Dec 2011
- TOP Biodiversity Cyprus 2010 Conference Proceedings — LULU Press, Sep 2010
- Composition and Strain Dependence of the Piezoelectric Coefficients in Semiconductor Alloys — MRS Online Proceedings Library, Nov 2007
- Optimized Tersoff potential parameters for tetrahedrally bonded III-V semiconductors — Physical Review B, Mar 2007
- Composition and strain dependence of the piezoelectric coefficients in In(x)Ga(1-x)As alloys — Physical Review B, Dec 2006
- The Tersoff potential for phonons in GaAs — Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, May 2006
- Elasticity, lattice dynamics and parameterisation techniques for the Tersoff potential applied to elemental and type III-V semiconductors — PhD Thesis, White Rose eTheses Online, Jul 2005
- Anisotropy of the electron energy levels in In(x)Ga(1-x)As / GaAs quantum dots with non uniform composition — Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, Feb 2005
- Influence of composition on the piezoelectric effect and on the conduction band energy levels of In(x)Ga(1-x)As / GaAs quantum dots — Journal of Applied Physics, Oct 2004
Certifications
- GDPR General Data Protection Foundation Certificate — EXIN, 2018
- PRINCE2 — APMG, 2011
Skills
Startups: Team Leadership · System Architecture · Project Management · Software Engineering · Scaling · R&D
DevSecOps: Linux · AWS · Cybersecurity · Automation · Test & QA
Backend Engineering: C/C++ · Python · Java · Android · Linux · Cryptography · Networking
Research: Computational Materials Science · Quantum Physics · Atomistic Simulation · Genetic Algorithms