Description

Solutions Architect & Tech Lead with 20+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS, AI platforms, and industrial automation. Expert in architecting cloud-native systems and transforming R&D-stage AI initiatives into production-ready services that align backend technical excellence with business growth.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Greek
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

CentricSoftware
Tech Lead | Senior AI & Data Engineer
September 2018 - Today (7 years and 9 months)
Munich, Germany
Owning the global transition of a R&D initiative into a production-ready enterprise service across US, EU,LATAM, and APAC. Provided the technical authority for deep-dives and demos, influencing multi-million dollar deal closures with global retailers.
Building high-concurrency Python ingestion pipelines and a Java ML microservice bridge to embed realtime multimodal search within the PLM core. Developing custom Airflow connectors and DAGs to synchronize complex domain attributes (Style, Material, Colorway and more) into a decoupled, high performance service layer.
Engineered a distributed, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure) supporting 3M+ image/text embeddings. Leveraged Kubernetes (K8s) and Zilliz Serverless Cloud to manage a high-concurrency Milvus architecture, maintaining 99.9% availability and millisecond-latency discovery at an enterprise scale.
Contributing to the next level event-driven "Intelligence" platform, a serverless Python ingestion framework using AWS Lambda and Kinesis to stream high-throughput data into Amazon Aurora and Bedrock, automating chunking and knowledge extraction to power context-aware AI Agents.
DXC Technology
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
December 2017 - August 2018 (8 months)
Frankfurt, HE, Germany
- Co-designed and implemented custom MES components for manufacturing operations in car production plants.
- Co-designed integration and communication flows between MES and ERP systems across several production sites.
- Designed and developed a custom BI dashboard for a Daimler production line, providing visibility into specific stages of vehicle production and supporting production monitoring and decision-making.
- Worked on manufacturing software bridging shop-floor execution with enterprise systems to support coordinated plant operations.
Adam Riese GmbH
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
December 2017 - April 2018 (4 months)
Stuttgart, BW, Germany
Developed Docker-based microservices and frontend applications for a digital insurance platform and customer portal. Designed a Windows sync client connecting Microsoft Office workflows with a secure data room solution.