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AI Engineering Manager at Kaizen Gaming architecting Gemini and RAG incident triage for production systems.

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a remote or hybrid EM or Staff Engineer role focused on AI.

At Kaizen Gaming, I built and lead the Ariadne Core squad, and I’m driving an EOS AI extension for production incident triage. It brings Gemini, RAG over incident reports and runbooks, and real-time alerts into a Slack-native workflow.

I own event, market, and odds workflows on .NET Orleans and Kafka. I’ve delivered Bet Builder Highlights, enhanced odds, Change Event Template Deployment, and a History Audit redesign.

At FSchumacher, I reworked the product detail page, improving engagement by 40% and conversion by 30%. I also improved order-management performance by 25% and added outbox-based email automation.

Earlier, I worked on backend systems for fintech, lottery, trading, and safety-critical radiation monitoring. My MSc thesis introduced the Inverse Ant Colony Algorithm for parking allocation, and my research agent won first place in the International TAC AdX Competition.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Team Lead — Ariadne Core

Current

Kaizen Gaming

Feb 2024 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Built and leads a squad of 4 backend, 1 frontend, and 2 QA engineers from zero, including hiring, onboarding, KPIs, 1:1s, and conflict resolution. Owns event, market, and odds workflows with audit, history, and risk-control automation on .NET Orleans and Kafka, and drives AI initiatives for production incident triage.

.NET C#Orleans Kafka RabbitMQ PostgreSQL SQL Server Gemini RAG LLM

Lead Software Engineer — FSchumacher

Datawise Data Engineering

Jul 2022 - May 2024 (1 year 10 months)

Drove a PDP rework that increased engagement by 40% and conversion by 30%, and improved order management performance by 25%. Implemented outbox-based email automation across workflow triggers.

Java Spring Boot PostgreSQL AWS Outbox Pattern

Software Engineer

Samsung Developers

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 11 months)

Developed 10+ Galaxy Watch apps using JavaScript, achieving an average rating of 4 stars and generating $5k passive income per year.

JavaScript

Lead Software Engineer — FinTech Credit Platform

Tymit

Oct 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 1 month)

Backend lead for APIs serving iOS, Android, and Web, with AWS and Graylog/Kibana observability, achieving a 40% increase in user retention.

Java Spring Boot AWS Graylog Kibana

Co-Founder

Ouroboros Office

Jan 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Co-founded a company developing custom web and e-commerce solutions using Java and Angular.

Java Angular

Instructor

Learning Actors

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 11 months)

Taught Java and Spring Boot to 25 adults, achieving a 90% satisfaction rate and earning the Java Hero title.

Java Spring Boot

Software Engineer — XM Trading Platform

May 2020 - Oct 2020 (5 months)

Developed a Java 11 and Spring Boot trading backend with concurrency and consistency, achieving 99% uptime. Handled partial DevOps with AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Jira, and GitHub.

Java 11 Spring Boot AWS Docker Jenkins

Software Engineer — UK National Lottery Backend

Camelot Lottery Solutions

Sep 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 8 months)

Worked on mission-critical backend systems with zero-fault tolerance, achieving a 30% reduction in security vulnerabilities and zero breaches. Also served as a developer coach, mentoring a Scrum team of 7 in a multicultural London office.

Java Spring Boot SQL Junit Cucumber

Course Assistant

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 (11 months)

Assisted with labs, grading, and code reviews for Programming and Data Structures courses.

Programming Data Structures

Tech Author

Baeldung

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (11 months)

Published articles on Java, Spring Boot, and REST for the global developer community.

Java Spring Boot REST

Software Engineer — Radiation Monitoring Systems

CERN

Aug 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Built Raisin and Sailor web applications with 99% uptime on safety-critical infrastructure, collaborating in a multicultural cross-country team.

Java Spring Boot Pl SQL PrimeFaces

Software Engineer

Agile Actors

Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (11 months)

Worked on lottery systems using Java, Groovy, and Cassandra, achieving a 40% fraud reduction and 98% defect detection.

Java Groovy Cassandra

Software Engineer

GNT Information Systems

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 11 months)

Developed solutions using Java, Liferay, and Android/Ionic, achieving a 30% efficiency gain.

Java Liferay Android Ionic

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

2017 - 2023

MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Thesis on smart city parking system, invented the Inverse Ant Colony Algorithm for parking space allocation optimisation.

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Telecommunications

2011 - 2015

BSc in Computer Science and Telecommunications with Erasmus at Aalto University, Helsinki 2013-14. Focus on Software Engineering and Network Engineering.