I investigate technology as infrastructure, business, and power.

Reporting, research, and technical writing on AI, software systems, platform power, and digital culture.

About

I am an investigative journalist and writer working on the political economy of technology: AI as an economic and social force, software as infrastructure, and platforms as institutions that shape labor, markets, and public life. I look past hype and public relations to what is actually happening, and explain complex technical subjects with evidence, without jargon and without dumbing them down.

I am also a PhD researcher in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens, supervised by Yannis Smaragdakis since October 2016, and a member of the PLaST research group (programming languages and software technologies). My research is on static analysis of Java programs and on making precise program analysis scale to large software systems.

Focus

  • AI economics
  • Platform governance
  • Software infrastructure
  • Static analysis
  • Digital culture
  • Investigative reporting

Experience

Since Oct. 2016

PhD researcher

University of Athens

Athens, Greece

Doctoral research on static analysis of Java programs, enterprise software, and the scalability limits of precise program analysis.

2023

Software engineer

Satways Ltd.

Athens, Greece

Eclipse RCP software development and Elastic Stack development for log management and analysis.

2019

Research assistant

Oracle Labs Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Research on enterprise Java analysis and the engineering constraints of program analysis in practice.

2014 - 2016

Research assistant

University of Athens

Athens, Greece

Research on static analysis of Java programs.

2012 - 2013

Intern

CERN

Geneva, Switzerland

Early research and engineering experience at a large international scientific institution.

Publications

Projects

PLaST Lab (contributor)

Heaps Don't Lie! Analyzes standard JVM and Android heap snapshots to improve the completeness of program analysis tools such as Doop.

Personal

Writing

Creator and writer

BORDERPOLAR

Essays, reporting, criticism, guides, and commentary on technology, games, and digital culture.

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