Yannis G.

Yannis G. has a diverse work experience in the field of data engineering and data science. Yannis most recently served as the Data Platform Team Lead at Lighthouse since 2023. Prior to that, they worked at Deliverect as a Data Engineer from 2022 to 2023, where they implemented archival procedures for production data, resulting in cost savings and improved database performance.

Yannis also worked as a Data Engineer at dataroots from 2020 to 2022, where they led a team in generating business reports using Scala Spark and Hadoop. Yannis was responsible for extracting data from mainframe systems and transferring them to the data lake.

From 2018 to 2019, Yannis worked as a Data Engineer and Data Scientist at Riaktr, where they developed and scaled data pipelines and provided big data and analytics services for MultiChoice. Yannis utilized technologies such as PySpark, Microsoft Azure, and SQL/NoSQL for these projects.

Yannis has previous experience as a Data Scientist and Software Engineer at IBM, where they extended the functionality of the Mauritshuis application and improved existing Watson services. Yannis also worked as a Trainee Associate at Vodafone and the Semantic Web Unit at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Yannis G. completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 2010 to 2015. Yannis then pursued a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in the European Master's Program in Computational Logic, completing it at Technische Universität Dresden in 2015 and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2016. Additionally, they participated in an Erasmus program at Technische Universität Dresden in 2015, focusing on Computer Science. Yannis also obtained a European Master's Program in Computational Logic at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2016. Among their additional certifications, they acquired various skills in data science and blockchain technology from IBM, as well as a Professional Scrum Master certification from Scrum.org. Other certifications include the Goethe-Zertifikat B2 in 2013 and the Certificate of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University and Michigan State University in 2008.