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Engineering came into Vasileios\u00a0Pastrikakis<\/span><\/span>\u2018s life through his father, who spent his career as an engineer on maritime ships. He grew up on stories of how his father could \u201cidentify and solve an engine problem while being under pressure,\u201d and those stories planted the initial idea of what his own future could look like. They also gifted him with long lasting values that still guide him today, to work hard, have humility, and always be curious. As Vas began questioning what he wanted to do with his life, he chose to carry those lessons somewhere his father had never sailed.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: Vasileios\u00a0Pastrikakis at graduation with his sister<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A Different Kind of Engineering Career<\/h3>\n

His father chased problems across the open water. Vas went looking for them in the sky. \u201cI wanted to make my own path\u201d he says. He found it in propulsion \u2014 or as he puts it, \u201cthe heart of every aircraft and spacecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, he pursued a PhD in rotorcraft aerodynamics, then spent a couple of years working on fixed-wing aircraft projects before propulsion pulled him in for good. It was an entirely different industry from his father\u2019s, but the instincts were the same ones he\u2019d learned as a kid. Stay calm, find the problem, and solve it properly, no matter the pressure.<\/p>\n

Learning to Build, Not Just Design<\/h3>\n

While working on propulsion, Vasileios\u00a0grew curious about the business behind the engineering, so he pursued an MBA alongside his technical work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to understand not only how great products are engineered, but also how successful companies grow, how teams are built, and how innovation is commercialized,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

That combination is what brought him to SoftInWay, where he was offered \u201cthe chance to solve complex engineering challenges while learning how a technology company grows, supports customers and turns innovation into real-world impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the perfect combination for Vas, and though he didn\u2019t know it yet, this was the start of what would come to feel like a second family.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2: Vasileios\u00a0presenting at Turbo Expo representing SoftInWay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Beginning of Something Big<\/h3>\n

Vas still remembers exactly when he realized SoftInWay was building something much larger than just AxSTREAM<\/a>, a specialized holistic turbomachinery design platform. About eight years ago, his business and engineering expertise made him the bridge connecting customers to software. It was there that he landed his first space startup customer, an ambitious rocket engine project that arrived right at the start of Europe\u2019s commercial space boom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became clear to me that we weren\u2019t simply selling engineering software, we were helping ambitious companies accelerate innovation and bring new technologies to life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Since then, he\u2019s supported dozens of organizations across space, aerospace, and defense. He says watching them grow has been one of the most rewarding parts of his career.<\/p>\n

That first startup project also sparked the ambition that drives his work every day, to make SoftInWay the company all engineers turn to when nobody else has an answer.<\/p>\n

Home, and a New Chapter for the UK SoftInWay Team<\/h3>\n

Not every defining decision in Vas\u2019s career was a technical one. While originally based at SoftInWay Switzerland, personal circumstances meant he and his family needed to move back to England, but it wasn\u2019t a decision he had to make alone. \u201cSoftInWay supported that decision, and together we saw it as an opportunity to establish and grow a stronger presence in the UK,\u201d he says. \u201cLooking back several years later, that decision proved to be the right one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten years later, Vas leads as SoftInWay\u2019s UK Managing Director, watching that presence grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredibly rewarding to see how a personal decision evolved into something that also created lasting value for the company,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Figure 3: Vasileios\u00a0and Sherry Deng (SoftInWay Engineering Consultant in the UK) at the Farnborough Airshow 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What Comes Next<\/h3>\n

Today, Vas is working on what he calls the most exciting project of his career: an innovative propulsion system unlike anything ever developed before. He can\u2019t share the details yet, but the shape of the challenge is a familiar one that requires the same instinct he learned as a kid, to stay calm, find the problem, solve it properly, no matter the pressure. Only now the timelines are more ambitious with harder constraints.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose constraints force us to think differently, question assumptions, and innovate every single day,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not so different, in the end, from the pressure his father used to face at sea, except now it\u2019s Vasileios leading the team that has to find the answer.<\/p>\n

What drives him now is the same thing that shaped him back then: his family. He wants to give his own wife and children the kind of future his parents worked to give him, built on the same hard work, humility, and curiosity they passed down. That instinct never stayed confined to home, and it\u2019s the same one that turned SoftInWay into a second family.<\/p>\n

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Figure 4: Vasileios at a conference working at SoftInWay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Vasileios\u2019s story is a reminder that the instincts we learn as kids don\u2019t always stay where we learned them. Sometimes they\u2019re carried sideways, into an industry no one expected, and into a second family we didn\u2019t know we\u2019d find.<\/em><\/p>\n

At SoftInWay, legacy lives here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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