research engineer @ MIT Media Lab doing BCI things • co-founder @ CALT making culture less boring • ex-arrikto where i learned kubernetes is just yaml all the way down
MEng from NTUA where i spent 5 years convincing professors that "works on my laptop" counts as distributed systems
- 🧠 migrating NeuroChat from firebase to something that scales (narrator: it's complicated)
- 🎭 building a cultural events recommender that actually understands you're not into jazz (yet)
- ⚡ making IoT systems process energy data in real-time because someone has to save the planet
- 🎓 supervising undergrads on their thesis, which is 70% debugging, 30% existential crisis
📸 a professional photographer • 🏃 actually consistent at running • 🎙️ hosting a podcast called "that's nuts" • 🏄 surfing instead of debugging • 🎬 running open-air cinema screenings
python • flutter • kubernetes • figma • postgres • the entire alphabet soup of modern web dev
(most of my public github repos are old student projects, don't judge me)
find me on linkedin • check out nikosbellos.com • email: nikolas.bellos@gmail.com
"i'm not saying it's a bug, i'm saying it's an undocumented feature"