Ioannis Stavrakantonakis

Ioannis Stavrakantonakis is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in software engineering and platform engineering. Currently serving as the Director of Platform Engineering at Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink®, since September 2023, Ioannis has previously held various roles at Amazon from January 2020 to September 2023, including Software Development Engineer II, where contributions were made to the lifecycle of ML models for the Neural Machine Translation service. Earlier experience includes engineering management and team leadership at KAYAK, as well as research and development roles at STI Innsbruck and other organizations. Ioannis holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universität Innsbruck and a Diploma of Engineering in Electronic Engineering and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete.