Fotios S.-Experienced AI Architect and Founder

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Experience
Founder & Head Engineer
Infoset LTD
Leading Infoset's AI relaunch, focusing on agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and enterprise AI tooling.
- AI Innovation Leadership: Relaunched Infoset to build scalable AI products with LLM agents, HuggingFace, LangChain and LangGraph utilizing cloud services on AWS Bedrock, Sagemaker.
- Platform Creation: Built open AI services (diavgeia.infoset.co, nomos.infoset.co, business.infoset.co) integrating public data with RAG and intelligent tools. Also built an innovative weather intelligence service mining insights from news regarding hazardous events providing detailed geolocated risk for flood, fire and other hazards.
- Business Automation: Developed UnderAI, a platform for automating insurance operations like underwriting with AI Agents
- Process Optimization: Developed BlendPredict system for optimizing Sustainable Fuel production, awarded first globally from Shell in shell.ai international competition.
Big Data Manager / Software Architect
Amdocs LTD
Managed big data engineering on prem and cloud to power geospatial analytics and IoT intelligence.
- Team Leadership: Directed international Big Data team, improving performance and DevOps collaboration.
- IoT Analytics Platform: Designed and developed T-Mobile USA's serverless platform for real-time telemetry analytics on AWS, scalable to process 10M+ events/hour with sub-100ms latency and enabling predictive maintenance and proactive support.
- Architecture Optimization: Containerized core platform with docker enabling scalability while cutting in half development time..
- Innovation Recognition: Sparkz project awarded 3rd place in global internal tech competition (70+ entries).
Freelance Cloud & AI Consultant
Various Clients
Delivered cloud modernization and AI architecture projects for banks, startups, and government organizations.
- Cloud Migration & Big Data Optimization: Redesigned Public Power Corporation's customer data pipeline on Azure (Synapse & Databricks), reducing processing time from 40 hours to under 2, leading a 5-engineer team and delivering a scalable, modular, and audit-ready solution integrated with internal systems
- Big Data Real Time pipeline: Designed and deployed a real-time event processing system on Azure AKS using Apache Flink and Kafka, replacing a costly Databricks pipeline for a major Greek bank—achieving 90% cost reduction and 50% faster processing
- AI & ML Platform Design: Co-led the technical design of a national-scale Azure data platform for Greek Independent Authority for Public Revenue to combat fuel smuggling, overseeing Lakehouse architecture, pipelines, and ML integration, while ensuring security, CI/CD, and cross-team coordination across Synapse, Databricks, and AKS
- Startup CTO Leadership: Cut startup costs by £6.5M through cloud-native design & strategic partnerships (Industry 4.0/AR sector).
- Health IT DevOps: Modernized Belgium-based Health IT startup's stack (Azure, Kubernetes, .NET), cutting deployment time 40%.
- Mobile App Dev: Delivered peer-to-peer shopping app (React Native, Firebase, Stripe) for UK fashion tech startup.
Founder & CTO
Infoset LTD
Launched and scaled Infoset as a SaaS and HealthTech software provider, delivering enterprise platforms in regulated industries.
- SaaS Platform Development: Architected and led STUDIO, an eClinical platform (eCRF, CTMS, eTMF), reducing trial costs by 30%.
- Strategic Delivery: Delivered 30+ pharma/CRO projects for Fortune 500 clients; ensured ISO/GCP compliance.
- Product Innovation: Developed IPSOSYS, an intelligent patient support platform reaching ROI within 12 months.
- ERP/CRM Systems: Built Odoo-based ERP/CRM systems targeting niche health service workflows.
- Agile Transformation: Introduced Agile and CI/CD, achieving 50% profitability margin on software projects.
- Conference Engagement: Presented at international med-tech events, generating new partnerships.
Software Development Manager
Aksia LTD
Established and scaled the Greek IT hub for a global financial advisory firm.
- Branch Leadership: Built the Greece IT office from scratch, recruiting and managing high-performing dev team.
- Financial Systems: Delivered critical reporting and analytics apps (Bloomberg, Edgar Online, Dow Jones).
- CRM & BI Tools: Built hedge fund liquidity tools and an internal CRM to streamline operational workflows.
- Architecture Ownership: Led design and implementation of Condor, a hedge fund monitoring suite.
Senior Software Consultant
Intellisolutions S.A.
Delivered custom software and ECM systems for Greece's top banks and telecoms.
- Enterprise Content Management: Delivered €1.5M+ in ECM projects using SharePoint & .NET.
- Invoice Automation: Built metadata extraction system to digitize scanned invoices into workflow systems.
- Project Delivery: Owned full project lifecycle from pre-sales through deployment.
- Banking Systems: Led development of integrated customer ID and fraud analysis systems.
Software Engineer
Tellas S.A.
- Systems Engineering: Contributed to billing and CRM system (Siebel) enhancements; optimized fraud detection.
- Cost Efficiency: Avoided costly vendor upgrades by optimizing internal Oracle 9g-based systems.
Software Developer
4M S.A.
- Web Systems: Built customer-facing ERP/e-commerce systems, increasing web sales by 90%.
- Infrastructure Support: Administered Windows/Linux servers and improved software reliability.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Healthcare, Banking and Finance, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunication, and Fashion.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Operations, Research and Development, and Business Intelligence.
Summary
Experienced AI Architect and Founder with 20+ years in cloud, big data, and AI solution delivery. Specialized in designing scalable systems across highly regulated industries. Deep expertise in AWS and Azure with multiple certifications and enterprise deliveries, passionate about innovation, lean execution, and mentoring high-performance teams.
Skills
Cloud Architecture (Azure & Aws)
Ai Strategy
Big Data & Real-Time Analytics
Data Engineering
Llm Application Development
Devops & Ci/Cd
Ai Agents & Rag Workflows
Enterprise Software Delivery
Startup Leadership
Agile Team Management
Languages: Python, Java, Sql, Typescript, Javascript, Bash, C#
Frameworks: Node.Js, React.Js, Next.Js, Svelte, Dash, Redux, .Net
Cloud: Azure (Synapse, Databricks, Ml, Aks), Aws (Lambda, Athena, S3, Bedrock, Kinesis), Gcp, Snowflake
Data/Big Data: Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Hive, Flink, Cassandra, Power Bi
Devops: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Github Actions, Azure Devops, Mlops
Ai/Llm: Langchain, Langgraph, Openai, Bedrock, Pinecone, Hugging Face, Streamlit, Aws Sagemaker, N8n, Elevenlabs
Databases: Sql Server, Postgresql, Mysql, Mongodb, Firebase
Languages
Education
University of Edinburgh
MSc · Computer Science · United Kingdom
National Technical University of Athens
Diploma · Electrical & Computer Engineering · Athens, Greece
Certifications & licenses
AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional
Azure Data Scientist Associate
Azure Administrator Associate
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure Data Engineer Associate
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Odoo 12
ODOO
Certified Clinical Data Manager
SCDM
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Experience
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Fotios is based in Agia Paraskevi, Greece and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Fotios speaks the following languages: Greek (Native), English (Advanced).
Fotios has at least 23 years of experience. During this time, Fotios has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 11 months. Note that Fotios may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Fotios would be well-suited for roles such as: Founder & Head Engineer, Big Data Manager / Software Architect, Freelance Cloud & AI Consultant.
Fotios's most recent position is Founder & Head Engineer at Infoset LTD.
In recent years, Fotios has worked for Infoset LTD, Amdocs LTD, and Various Clients.
Fotios is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Healthcare, and Banking and Finance. Fotios also has some experience in Pharmaceutical, Telecommunication, and Fashion.
Fotios is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management. Fotios also has some experience in Operations, Research and Development, and Business Intelligence.
Fotios has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Healthcare, and Pharmaceutical.
Fotios has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
Fotios holds a Master in Computer Science from University of Edinburgh.
Fotios has 14 certificates. Among them, these include: AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional, Azure Data Scientist Associate, and Azure Administrator Associate.
Fotios is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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