About

Nikolas Psaroudakis is an Athens based front-end engineer who enjoys building the foundations rather than the features on top of them — component libraries, form builders, the tooling migrations nobody else wants to own. He picks up frameworks as the job requires rather than specializing in one, and has spent most of the last eight years as the only front-end engineer in the room.

Before front-end, he spent close to a decade as a creative technologist, building real-time graphics and interactive installations in C++, OpenGL, and custom electronics for museums, restaurants and dance performances — work that stayed closer to art & technology than to software as most people mean it. He has designed, fabricated, programmed, troubleshooted and hacked DMX controllers, robotic bagpipes, wall plotters, custom cnc machines, using microcontrollers, custom circuitry and all kinds of weird actuators and sensors.

He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a BSc and MSc in Physics from the University of Kent — the MSc thesis, on face detection in color images using Gaussian scale-space theory and hidden Markov models, sits a tad closer to his current work than the physics department it was filed under.

He has a curious mind and gets bored easily with repetitive work, unless it has to do with gardening.

His CV is on this site, and you can contact him at psaroudakis@gmail.com.