About Ian Atha | The Ian Atha Museum of Internet Curiosities

Despite its boisterous name, "The Ian Atha Museum of Internet Curiosities" is Ian Atha's personal blog. "Who is Ian Atha?", you may ask.

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The short version

Ian Atha is an Athens-based technologist, product consultant, and phygital designer. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Linguistics from Grinnell College. After a decade as an early employee at some of Silicon Valley's most prominent names, he relocated to Athens in 2020 — not as a stopover, but as a permanent base from which to build things that sit at the intersection of craft, technology, and civic life.

His ORCID is 0000-0003-2076-4086.

Previously

He has been an early employee at prominent Silicon Valley names such as:

Ian has also consulted for companies like:

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How he builds

Ian works across the full stack (Go, TypeScript (React, Next.js), Python, Rust, Elixir) and runs self-hosted infrastructure on Kubernetes (Talos Linux), MikroTik networking, and Home Assistant. His hardware work includes 3D printing and fabrication, and NFC security engineering. He is interested in the places where software meets the physical world and where institutional systems meet the people who depend on them.

Current interests

AI governance and the EU AI Act, particularly the gap between regulatory language and real-world LLM behavior. Greek consumer protection law. Sociolinguistics of human-LLM interaction. Agricultural automation. Cocktail craft and hospitality design. Archival Athens photography. Privacy-first technology (GrapheneOS, self-hosted everything). The Greek language itself.

Around the web

In his free time he bakes raspberry pi.