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Software engineer in training. I run my own Linux homelab, fine-tune local LLMs, grind competitive programming, and put in 100‑mile weeks on the trail. I bring the discipline of an ultramarathoner to the keyboard.
I'm Marios — a recent high-school graduate from Strovolos, Nicosia, heading into a year of national service before reading Computer Science at university (AI & Networking specialisation).
I'm a three-time Cyprus Olympiad of Informatics competitor (national final in 2025, 100 pts), EJOI selection runner-up, Cisco CCNA × 2 certified, and an A-Level Further Mathematics — Grade A student with IELTS 7.5. I founded Ascend — a live motivational web platform used by students during exam season — and was the Web Developer & Event Technician at FX Sounds earlier this year — built their official site and ran AV at live events across Cyprus.
By evening I'm on the trail or in the gym. Cyprus Backyard Ultra finisher (70 km / 8 hrs), 4 years of Judo, 9 years of scouting (Democracy Award recipient). The willingness to sit with a hard problem long after it stops being fun — that's the through-line.
Where I am on the timeline — and what I'm open to right now.
Finished high school in Strovolos, Nicosia. Twelve years of formal schooling, plus a self-directed parallel curriculum in Linux, ML, and competitive programming.
Mandatory national service. A year of discipline, leadership in small teams, and the kind of structure that makes everything afterwards feel relaxed by comparison.
Heading into a CS programme right after service. Researching options now; the goal is a school that takes systems and AI seriously.
If something fits any of the above, the inbox is in the contact section.
Roles I've actually shipped in — paid client work, student-startup leadership, and three years of school-side technical responsibility.
A full self-hosted stack on Proxmox with a dedicated GPU host. Docker-orchestrated services behind Nginx Proxy Manager (Let's Encrypt SSL): Nextcloud, Immich, Pi-hole, self-hosted VPN, local AI inference. Zero paid subscriptions.
Running and fine-tuning open-source models (Llama, Mistral) entirely offline. Private, zero-telemetry inference on commodity hardware.
Documentation of my journey toward the Government Scout Award — a record of leadership, community service, and the outdoor skills that shaped my discipline and resilience.
"I don't study code for the sake of theory; I master technology to build solutions for real-world scenarios." A curated archive of my problem-solving work — algorithms, data structures, and contest write-ups.
My solutions to the official Hackerrank Cyprus Olympiad problems.
A daily-quotes app that delivers a hit of motivation every morning. Iterated from a scrappy v1 prototype into a cleaner v2 rewrite — better state, better UX, better reasons to get out of bed.
A full-stack, interactive platform built to facilitate reconciliation and emotional expression. Front-end animations meet a Node.js backend to create a meaningful, digital space for communication.
A football-themed take on classic Pong, written in Python with Pygame. Two-player local arcade fun.
A classic Snake implementation in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no frameworks, no dependencies.
Code is the day job. Long-distance running is the proof I can stay in a hard thing for hours after it stops being fun.
Cyprus Backyard Ultra finisher (70 km / 8 hrs, 14 Mar 2026), 50 km finisher, plus a string of shorter races. Pacing, fueling, blister logistics, and the back-half mental game — all of it transfers to debugging at 2am.
Four years of Judo, plus a weekly mix of weight training and calisthenics progressions. Pull-ups, dips, front-lever work — body-weight skill ladders that reward consistency over intensity.
9 years with the Cyprus Scout Association — patrol leader, expedition lead, and recipient of the Βραβείο Δημοκρατίας (Democracy Award, 2024). Scouting taught me to plan trips, lead small teams, and stay calm when the weather turns. The Scout Journey project came from that world.
“Mile 60 of a 100‑k race feels a lot like hour eight of a hackathon. The trick is the same: keep moving, eat something, fix one thing at a time.”
Two CCNA modules completed in the Cisco Networking Academy pathway, plus a self-directed dive into machine learning back in 2022 — well before LLMs were everyone's daily driver.
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Decision trees, random forests, model validation, under/overfitting, train/test splits — the foundations I leaned on when later building local-LLM tooling.
DataFrames, indexing & selection, summary functions, grouping, joining, and the cleaning rituals every data project starts with.
Reached the national final with a perfect 100 pts. Three-time competitor (2023, 2024, 2025).
Runner-up in the Cyprus selection round for the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics.
Led the school team to a national silver with the Flash Joule Heating recycling concept.
Top-third finish out of twenty competing schools.
Awarded by the Cyprus Scout Association for sustained service and leadership.
Internship, hackathon team-up, or just a hello — inbox is open.