Anastasia Ailamaki
Chief Scientific Officer And Co-founder at RAW Labs
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAnastasia Ailamaki is a distinguished computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder serving as Chief Scientific Officer at RAW Labs and a Full Professor at EPFL, combining four decades of academic training with over 20 years of leadership in industry and research. She founded RAW Labs to simplify big data exploration and in-situ querying, translating deep systems research into production-ready tools that reduce storage and compute waste. Her hands-on engineering includes backend contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Elasticsearch, where she worked on cluster coordination, snapshot restores and disk-usage correctness—bridging theory and large-scale systems practice. A seasoned mentor and former faculty at Carnegie Mellon, she holds a PhD from UW–Madison and brings a rare mix of entrepreneurship, rigorous research, and low-level systems expertise to data platform challenges. An interesting thread through her career is repeatedly turning academic insights into commercial-grade software that scales across enterprises.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonEnngineering Diploma Computer Engineering, Enngineering Diploma Computer Engineering at University of PatrasM.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at University of RochesterM.Sc. Computer Engineering, M.Sc. Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (8)
testing10
javas10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
java10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:841 reviews, 69 commits, 346 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anastasia primarily contributed to the Elasticsearch backend by implementing and modifying core functionalities. They focused on enhancing cluster coordination, including periodic warning emissions for single-node clusters with seed hosts and ensuring proper handling of cluster state transitions. Additionally, the user introduced features related to snapshot restore processes and implemented improvements for disk usage calculations. The contributions also involved code refactoring and adding tests to ensure the reliability and correctness of the codebase.
restfulsearch-engineopensearchelasticsearchjava
kingherc/elasticsearch
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:1209 pushes, 419 branches in 2 years 9 months
restfulsearch-engineelasticsearchsearchdistributed
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