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Nikos Provatas

@nikosprovatas

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Janea Systems building production LLM products, including a SQL assistant with 50% lower latency.

Greece
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At Janea Systems, I build and maintain core components of an LLM-powered SQL assistant in production, from Qdrant retrieval and text-to-SQL generation to fine-tuned inference and multi-agent orchestration. Fine-tuning with LoRA and serving through vLLM and KServe helped reduce latency by 50%.

I also built evaluation and prompt-management frameworks, and an observability stack with Datadog and LangFuse. It tracks costs and production quality, contributing to a 30% reduction in inference costs.

Before Janea Systems, I designed data pipelines at Agile Actors on Databricks and Spark, processing more than 10 million events per day for a major Greek bank. I also led an on-premise-to-Azure migration and optimized Delta Lake queries.

At ICCS - NTUA, I trained and deployed forecasting and logistics models and worked on distributed deep learning research at the National Technical University of Athens. My PhD research produced ten peer-reviewed publications, and I’m now pursuing an MSc in Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Janea Systems logoJS
Current

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Dec 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

- LLM-powered SQL assistant in production. Built and maintained core components across the full stack — RAG retrieval via Qdrant, text-to-SQL generation, fine-tuned model inference, and multi-agent orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph).
- Fine-tuned LLMs with LoRA, served through vLLM/KServe and LiteLLM proxy on K8s → 50% latency reduction. - Built evaluation framework with automated test suites and

Agile Actors logoAA

Upper Senior Data Engineer

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 3 months)

- Architected data pipelines on Databricks/Spark processing 10M+ events/day for one of Greece's largest banks.
- Real-time streaming (sub-second latency) and batch over terabyte-scale datasets. 99.9% uptime.
- CI/CD (Azure DevOps) with automated testing → 70% fewer production incidents.
- Optimized Delta Lake: Z-ordering and compaction → 40% query improvement, 30% storage cost reduction.
- Led m

Agile Actors logoAA

Senior Data Engineer

Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 (8 months)

Worked as Senior Data Engineer at Agile Actors.

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Senior Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer

ICCS - NTUA

Sep 2019 - Jan 2023 (3 years 4 months)

- Trained and deployed ML models for energy forecasting and logistics — feature engineering, evaluation, hyperparameter tuning → 15% accuracy improvement over baseline.
- Research prototypes shipped to production for EU-funded projects.
- Built a data processing orchestrator in Java integrating HDFS, Spark, Kafka, HBase — unified scheduling, access control, and pipeline management across petabyte

IN

Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer

ICCS - NTUA

Oct 2016 - Sep 2019 (2 years 11 months)

Worked as Big Data and Machine Learning Engineer at ICCS - NTUA .

SS

Software Engineer

sunTech s.a.

Apr 2016 - Jun 2016 (2 months)

Participation in developing webpages (blogs, eshops) with C# MVC framework
Google SEO optimization

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

DD

Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.)

Master of Science - MS, Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies

2025 - 2027

NA

National Technical University of Athens

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Big Data / Deep Learning

2017 - 2025

Thesis Title: Study and optimization of distributed deep learning under the parameter server architecture

https://freader.ekt.gr/eadd/index.php?doc=60025

UD

Udemy

Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Course

Nov 2022

NA

National Technical University of Athens

Master of Science - MS, Data Science and Machine Learning

2018 - 2020

CO

Coursera

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Sep 2020

NA

National Technical University of Athens

Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering

2011 - 2016

Computer Engineering:
- Software and Hardware Engineering
- Basic knowledge on Network Protocols
- Signal Processing, Robotics and Machine Learning

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