Nikolaos Pothitos

LLMOps · DevOps · Vivalerts founder · PhD

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Employment

👨‍💻 2014–Today AI/DevOps Engineer at Nokia

Expert in Continuous Integration and Testing, applying Kanban and Agile methodologies in large-scale telecom systems for the

• 5G Short Message Service Function (SMSF)
• Nokia Telecom Application Server containerized product for voice, messaging, and video sessions
• Inner Source components for multiple products
• Virtual Gateway Platform product which deploys 4G telecommunication applications in cloud infrastructures

Innovation Officer and C++ trainer registered in LAEK (Special Fund for Employment and Vocational Training)

👨‍💻 2012–2014 Computerization, database design, reports generation for the magazines redistribution company Lobby

👨‍💻 2009–2011 Professor in Vocational Training Institutes for the courses: Programming, Algorithms & Data Structures, Software Engineering, Unix Operating Systems, Communication & Internet Technologies, Introduction to Computing, and Graduation Projects

👨‍💻 2008 Software Engineer for embedded systems in the IT company Infinite Data Technology

👨‍💻 2008 Analyst/Programmer at Hellenic Army Staff; military service fulfilled

👨‍💻 2003 English Professor at Evangelopoulos tutorial school

Education

🎓 2022 Ph.D. with honors at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. Dissertation title: Constraint Programming: Algorithms and Systems

💰 Partially funded by C++ libraries for constraint programming NKUA and Handling uncertainty in data intensive applications on a distributed computing environment Thales projects

🎓 2009 M.Sc. with honors at NKUA in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. M.Sc. Title: Advanced Information Systems

🎓 2005 B.Sc. at NKUA in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. Direction: Computer Systems and Applications

Awards and Scholarship

🎖️ 2025 Nokia Infinity award for CLI to AI transformation

🎖️ 2022 Nokia Athens R&D Innovation award

🎖️ 2022 Vivalerts was one of the seven finalists of the 1^st NKUA Innovation and Entrepreneurship competition

🎖️ 2011 Bodossaki Foundation scholarship for Ph.D. studies

🎖️ 2000 Mayor of Athens medal for high school performance

Publications

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. The dilemma between arc and bounds consistency. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 35(10):1467–1491, 2020 · PDF · Publisher · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. Building search methods with self-confidence in a constraint programming library. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 27(4):1860003, 2018 · PDF · Publisher · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. Piece of Pie Search: Confidently exploiting heuristics. In SETN 2016, pages 8:1–8:8, New York, 2016. ACM · PDF · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. Constraint Programming MapReduce'd. In SETN 2016, pages 5:1–5:4, New York, 2016. ACM · PDF · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos, Panagiotis Stamatopoulos, and Kyriakos Zervoudakis. Course scheduling in an adjustable constraint propagation schema. In ICTAI 2012, volume 1, pages 335–343. IEEE, 2012 · PDF · Publisher · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos, George Kastrinis, and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. Constraint propagation as the core of local search. In SETN 2012, volume 7297 of LNCS (LNAI), pages 9–16, Heidelberg, 2012. Springer · PDF · Publisher · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. Flexible management of large-scale integer domains in CSPs. In SETN 2010, volume 6040 of LNCS (LNAI), pages 405–410, Heidelberg, 2010. Springer · PDF · Publisher · BibTeX

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos. Constraint propagation and search methods in constraint programming. In Selected Graduate and Undergraduate Theses, volume 7, pages 31–40. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, NKUA, 2010 · PDF in Greek

📚 Nikolaos Pothitos. Automated timetable construction with constraint programming. In Selected Graduate and Undergraduate Theses, volume 4, pages 169–178. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, NKUA, 2007 · PDF in Greek

Teaching Assistant in NKUA

👨‍🏫 Introduction to Programming academic years '05-'06, '06-'07, '11-'12, '12-'13

👨‍🏫 Object-Oriented Programming academic years '05-'06, '06-'07, '08-'09, '09-'10, '10-'11, '11-'12, '12-'13, '13-'14

👨‍🏫 Logic Programming academic years '08-'09, '09-'10, '10-'11, '11-'12, '12-'13, '13-'14

👨‍🏫 Supervisor of diploma theses, three of which were selected among the best ones in their respective years

Scientific Activities

🎤 Program Committee member in the 36^th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2024) and Session Chair for two sessions in ICTAI 2012

🎤 Reviewer for the International Journal of Intelligent Systems and the conferences CIAC 2025, SETN 2024, 2010, 2006, ICTAI 2018, 2017, 2007, CIMA 2018, SEA 2017, ESA 2016

🎤 Byzantine Music Student at the Athens Archdiocese School, 2012–2015

Languages

🗣️ English University of Cambridge: Certificate of Proficiency, 1997

🗣️ French D.E.L.F. 1^er Degré, 1998

Knowledge and Skills Test Score: 95%

Organized by the Greek public hiring sector (ASEP)

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