Ilias says hi! 👋

I was born 11 months after the web was born and it took me a decade to discover it. After that, 13 years later, I found myself working at the web's birthplace, CERN.

I've been privileged to work most of my career on open-source projects. These days I work remotely as the lead maintainer of several user-facing apps at Alephium.

The beginning

My first experience with programming came at the age of 11. My parents sent me to a computer class after school hours. There, I learned programming with Logo, a language similar to Lisp. We would draw shapes on the screen by giving commands to a "turtle".

There, I also surfed the web for the fist time. When I’d finish my homework early, my teacher would allow me to use the IE5. Oh boy, such fun! I had a tiny booklet with a catalogue of all the websites I knew.

In highschool, I picked the pseudo-programming class, and eventually decided to study computer science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.