Andreas Merentitis
VP Data Chief Data Officer Europe, OLX Group (Naspers Prosus Company)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Merentitis is a data and machine learning leader with 15+ years of academic and industrial R&D experience, currently serving as VP Data / Chief Data Officer for OLX Group Europe. He blends hands-on expertise in algorithm design, sensor/data fusion and anomaly detection with proven leadership building data science organizations, experiment culture, and event-streaming/CIAM programs across large marketplaces. A PhD in Computer Engineering and more than 30 ML publications (600+ citations) underpin his record of driving measurable business impact—e.g., improving personalization, relevance, and forecasting at scale for OLX and Zalando. He has a track record of competitive research excellence (IEEE contest wins, Kaggle rankings) and practical systems work from model production platforms to distributed infrastructure. Known for navigating trade-offs between accuracy, performance and energy, he also steps into interim infrastructure and security leadership when needed. Based in Berlin, he combines deep technical rigor with executive-level strategy and hands-on delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PHD (honours) Computer Engineering, PHD (honours) Computer Engineering at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AndreasMerentitis/TfLambda-arxiv-keras
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:131 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
AndreasMerentitis/SkLambdaDemo-logistic
Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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