About

Welcome to my page!

I work on distributed systems and applied cryptography: I design protocols and take them all the way from theory to production. I am currently a technical consultant, working independently and through Common Prefix, where I do research, consulting, and engineering on blockchains, cryptography, and security.

Some highlights of my work:

• pod: I co-designed pod, a layer-1 blockchain with optimal latency and censorship resistance. Our paper received the best student paper award at DISC 2025, and pod is now live on mainnet.
• Bitcoin Scaling Labs: I lead the design and architecture of Bitcoin-IPC, which increases Bitcoin’s throughput by 23x (paper, code).
• Axelar: I co-architected Axelar’s next-generation bridging protocol, improving cross-chain latency and throughput.

Before that, I briefly worked at DFNS, building on threshold ECDSA and threshold key management protocols, and at IBM Research Zurich, building scalable large-scale consensus protocols.

I obtained my PhD at the Crypto group of the University of Bern, where I had the privilege to be advised by Prof. Christian Cachin. My PhD thesis was on Distributed Protocols with Threshold and General Trust Assumptions.

Earlier, I worked as a software engineer at Entersoft, a leading company in the sector of financial technology (aka web2), where I learned to appreciate high-quality code, good design patterns, and clean architecture.

I obtained my BSc and MSc in computer science from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens. My master thesis was on network security with deep learning methods at the Netmode Lab.

Concerning hobbitshobbies, I enjoy dancing and I teach Greek folk dances. I regularly watch the Lord of the Rings (and less regularly the first Hobbit film). I am also learning to play the violin. On a more refreshing side, I sometimes brew tasty beers. Cheers!