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Nikolaos Karamanos

Summary

Technology enthusiast and passionate with different technology applications, especially in computer science. For years I adapt cutting edge technology for my everyday life. Responsible and disciplined, when I love something I take it to the end no matter the cost, physical or psychological. I am always interested in learning new stuff and apply them in everyday job. Anything I miss today, I master it tomorrow.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

System Engineer

Optasia
01.2023 - Current
  • Highly skilled systems engineer and administrator with extensive experience in hardware solutions deployment and integration. I excel at developing custom software for hardware management and monitoring, and possess deep expertise in virtualization platforms such as VMware, Proxmox, and Xen. My responsibilities also include full-lifecycle management of physical infrastructure, from deployment to advanced troubleshooting, ensuring seamless operation and performance.

Developer, Multimedia interactive content designer

CALL Edutainment
05.2020 - 01.2023
  • I mostly design content for custom, in-house developed, interactive whiteboard software (IWB) implemented in ActionScript3. Also developed mini games in AS3 and test interactive content created with Unity Engine. Also my duty for a significant amount of time was, the production of interactive content for assisted language learning, using Moodle platform and Articulate Storyline.

IT Support Specialist

Self-employed
03.2019 - 01.2022
  • Working as 3rd party IT technician for home users (Home networking, SmartHome, DIY IoT) and for Small-Medium offices or small-medium companies. Design, Visualization and Implementation for special computer networks and security applications. Also provide support and installation of virtualization infrastructure. Currently working with UNIX(mainly Debian and occasionally CentOS), VMWare ESXi and Proxmox, Apache web server, Mikrotik RouterOS for most parts of networking.

External Collaborator

ProFixit.gr
01.2019 - 01.2023
  • I am currently responsible for various websites maintenance and new feature implementation using Joomla/Wordpress platforms. Also I am implementing basic SEO.

Video Editor

Self-employed
10.2017 - 01.2020
  • Freelancer video editor and graphics designer. Taking projects outsourced by customers in variant fields of industry. Also creating commercials and infomercials. Working with Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Affinity photo.

Ministry of Defense
  • Company Overview: Department of public relationships
  • Responsible for providing IT solutions and maintaining office IT gear. Also responsible for creating videos for the ministry's website (editing and partial color correction). Also responsible for creating multimedia content using Affinity photo and Photoshop.

Technical Support Specialist

ICAP, group of companies
10.2019 - 05.2020

Media Specialist

Hellenic Air Force (HAF)
09.2018 - 09.2019
  • Video editor / IT support expert

1st Level Technical Support

ICAP S.A
07.2018 - 09.2018
  • End-to-end Technician receiving customer calls and troubleshooting landline and Broadband connection issues. Also responsible for remote device management.

Research Scholar

Agricultural University of Athens
05.2015 - 09.2015
  • Timeseries analysis and Basic data mining training. Responsible for researching and collecting material about the current trends in the industry of DM and ML.

Education

Master's degree - Agricultural Economics

Agricultural University of Athens
12.2022

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Farkadona High School
01.2010

Skills

  • Hardware integration
  • Storage area network expertise
  • Virtualization technologies (VMWare, Proxmox)
  • Systems engineering
  • Enterprise storage management
  • Server management

Accomplishments

  • Supervised software installations and remote deployments with different small teams on remote sites.
  • Built computing and storage clusters on physical locations based on DELL and HPE platforms.
  • Created custom linux based solution for efficient storage monitoring and resource management (internal company project), based on custom python code and docker.
  • Managing linux storage in VMs and bare-metal OS installations with complex setups, including RAID, LVM, block storage solutions.

Additional Information

Avid homelab systems engineer, I have been hosting my own personal services deployed on-premise and on remote locations. Having worked on systems design and engineering, I have created plenty of solutions based on docker and linux programming through the years, for personal or professional use. Passionate about creating monitoring solutions based on Grafana and Prometheus, I have expertise on many different environments to deploy prometheus monitoring or creating custom solutions on linux and windows to gather any type of data. I also try to contribute to XCP-NG project, the open-source derivative of XenServer.

Languages

English (Full Professional)
Full Professional
German (Limited Working)
Limited Working

Timeline

System Engineer

Optasia
01.2023 - Current

Developer, Multimedia interactive content designer

CALL Edutainment
05.2020 - 01.2023

Technical Support Specialist

ICAP, group of companies
10.2019 - 05.2020

IT Support Specialist

Self-employed
03.2019 - 01.2022

External Collaborator

ProFixit.gr
01.2019 - 01.2023

Media Specialist

Hellenic Air Force (HAF)
09.2018 - 09.2019

1st Level Technical Support

ICAP S.A
07.2018 - 09.2018

Video Editor

Self-employed
10.2017 - 01.2020

Research Scholar

Agricultural University of Athens
05.2015 - 09.2015

Ministry of Defense

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Farkadona High School

Master's degree - Agricultural Economics

Agricultural University of Athens
Nikolaos Karamanos