Nektarios Patlakas - Giavridis

Machine Learning Engineer

iKnowHealth, Athens | March 2024 - Present

• Serve as Engineering Lead of the iKnowHealth AI team.
• Design, implement, and operate predictive deep-learning and generative-AI services in production using Python and Azure.
• Engineer microservices for on-demand predictions and domain-specific calculations that support health-oriented web applications.
• Built and deployed an LLM-powered service for controlled summarization of specialized content.
• Designed a Temporal-based workflow architecture and implemented its custom self-hosted deployment.
• Continuously deploy and maintain development, staging, and production services using Docker and Kubernetes, including Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Author and deploy Helm charts for repeatable Kubernetes releases, configuration management, and environment-specific operation.
• Introduced Ansible automation for consistent multi-environment provisioning and service deployment.
• Designed and delivered two production Go services, expanding the team's backend stack beyond Python.
• Developed health-oriented generative-AI solutions for one-shot classification tasks.

Machine Learning Engineer

PowerFactors, Athens | January 2022 - March 2024

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

Software Engineer

Satways Ltd., Athens | June 2018 - December 2021

• Contributed to the Research and Development team across multiple European research projects.
• Deployed TensorFlow deep-learning models within Java applications using Deeplearning4j.
• Developed machine-learning models for path prediction and deep-learning models for vehicle-recognition systems using Python and TensorFlow.
• Created augmented-reality applications for industrial use with Android and the MaxST AR SDK.

Programmer / Analyst

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

• Developed a computer-vision system for automatically scoring shooting targets using Python and OpenCV.
• Built a CRM system for managing personnel records.

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.