Nektarios Patlakas - Giavridis

Machine Learning Engineer

iKnowHealth, Athens | March 2024 - Present

• Serve as the Engineering Lead of the iKnowHealth AI team.
• Design, implement, and deploy predictive DL and GenAI services in production (Python, Azure).
• Engineered multiple microservices for on-demand predictions and calculations, forming the backbone of health-oriented web applications.
• Developed health-oriented GenAI for one-shot classification tasks.
• Managed containerized deployments on both edge VMs and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Machine Learning Engineer

PowerFactors, Athens | January 2022 - March 2024

• Designed, implemented, and deployed predictive ML services in a production environment (Python, GCP).
• Developed self-contained, object-oriented microservices for autonomous scheduling of inference and training jobs.
• Managed Kubernetes deployments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for both production and testing.

Software Engineer

Satways Ltd., Athens | June 2018 – December 2021

• Contributed to the Research and Development team on multiple EU Research Projects.
• Deployed Deep Learning models (TensorFlow) within Java projects using DL4J.
• Developed ML models for a path prediction tool and DL models for vehicle recognition systems (Python, TensorFlow).
• Created Augmented Reality applications for industrial use (Android, MaxST AR SDK).

Programmer/Analyst

Hellenic Army – Center of Research and Technology, Athens | September 2017 – June 2018

• Developed a Computer Vision project to auto-score shooting targets using Python and OpenCV.
• Built a CRM system for managing soldiers’ personal data.

MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Patras, Patras | 2010 – 2017

Division of Automation Systems and Telecommunications, with a major in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.

Master Thesis: Gait Recognition using Depth Information.