resume: thanos-vassilakis-resume-2026-01.pdf

thanos_vassilakis_continued = {
  "name": "Thanos Vassilakis", 
  "email": "thanos@automa.us", 
  "nationality": "USA & Greek", 
  "spoken languages": "English & French", 
  "interests": "Art, Reading, Music, Film, Gardening, Skiing, and programming."
  "now": {
    "title": "Distinguished Engineer, MD at RBC Finance", 
    "current projects" : ["Modernizing the General Ledger", "Everything AI!"]
  },
  "my pitch": """I’m looking for work where my experience and creative development skills will
             be used. I’m not seeking a title but a position where I can remain hands on and yet be given
             enough responsibility and trust to really contribute to the company. In my career I’ve had
             the  privilege to built really great development teams, and with them create powerful
             and successful frameworks and applications. I’m hoping these experiences and my strong
             technical and creative abilities will be exploited. Although I’ve often led teams I’m also
             very willing to take a back seat; listen, learn, reflect and then contribute.""",
               
    "bio": """
      I’m currently head of R&D and Shared Technical Services for RBC CM. I wasn’t always in finance and tried my best to avoid
      this domain. I started work in 1979 for the Electric Coin           company programming slot machines, developed games for Atari,
      functional programming languages for Imperial College, fuzzy logic control systems for Unilever, and Occam based neural networks on
      Transputers. In the early 90s I development tools and languages for Apple’s Newton,  a centralized internet-based patient register
      for the National Health, an internet casino for Caesars, an early form of cyber currency  Marita bank, we developed VAR system for
      Westdeutsche Landesbank. Since 1997 I returned to my hometown of New York I’ve been mostly working on finance gigs, developing high-frequency
      trading systems, trading platforms for fixed income and risk systems for commodities at various joints such as  ICAP,  JP Morgan, Credit Suisse.
      There have been some sojourns with a few startups which included mobile apps, social media analytics, blockchains, smart contacts, and alt-currencies.
      I've also held various posts such IT advisor to the European Parliament president,  Klaus Hänsch, IT Director of the Mykonos Biennale, Institute of Art & Technology
      of Greece, and chief editor of Algorithms.
      """,
    "programming_in_years": {"c": 31, "c++": 29, "python": 21, "java": 19, "javascript": 19, "erlang": 18, 
    "elixir": 8, "solidity": 8, "rust": 1, "golang": 5, "zig": 1},
    "employers": ["AAH Medical", "Apple", "Atari", "Barclays", "Books On Demand", "British Telecom", "Ceasars Casino", "Credit Suisse", "Electric Coin Company",
                  "Ericsson", "European Community/Cordis", "European Pariliament", "Ferrantti", "Honeywell Bull", "HP", "ICAP", "Infinigon Group", "JP Morgan", "Multitone", "NYSE", "Panasonic",
                  "RBC", "SIAC", "Unilever", "West LB", "Zingy"],
    "domains": {
      "robotics": ["Unilever"],
      "military": ["Ferrantti"],
      "comms/telecom": ["British telecom",  "Ericsson", "HP", "Honeywell Bull", "Multitone", "Reuters"],
      "games": ["Atari", "Zingy"],
      "gaming": ["Ceasars Casino", "Electric Coin Company", "Zingy"],
      "medical": ["AAH Medical"],
      "blockchain, encryption & electronic money": ["British telecom", "Ceasars Casino", "Ferrantti", "Marita Bank", "RBC"],
      "trading": ["Barclays",  "ICAP", "JP Morgan", "NYSE", "RBC", "SIAC"],
      "risk": ["West LB", "JP Morgan", "Credit Suisse", "RBC"],
      "big data": ["Infinigon Group", "RBC"],
      "social media analytics": ["Infinigon Group", "RBC"],
      "machine learning": ["Ceasars Casino", "Infinigon Group", "RBC"],
      "NLP": ["Ceasars Casino", "Infinigon Group", "RBC"],
      "cloud": ["Infinigon Group", "RBC"],
      "HPC": ["JP Morgan", "NYSE", "SIAC", "HP"],
      "mobile": ["ICAP",  "Ericsson", "Zingy", "Apple"],
      "workflow": ["European Parliament",  "European Community"],
     },
    "technologies": [
        "django", "RabbitMQ", "Riac Core", "Messos", "Docker", "Kafka", "Redis",
        "Memcache", "Postgres", "Elasticsearch", "Hadoop", "node", "websockets", "and a lot more"
    ],
    "stack of work past": [ "RBC", "Infinigon Group", "RBC", "JP Morgan", "Credit Suisse", "JP Morgan", "Zingy", "ICAP", "SIAC/NYSE",
                            "Ericsson/HP", "West LB", "European Community", "Ceasars Casino", "European Parliament", "AAH Medical",
                            "Apple", "Symantec (Zortech)", "Reuters International", "Honeywell Bull", "British Telecom", "Ferrantti",
                            "Barclays", "Multitone", "Atari", "Unilever", "Atari", "Electric Coin Company"
    ]
}