Athanasios Salamanis is a product engineering leader with eight years of experience building cloud-native, compliant, and highly available platforms for healthcare and public sector at companies including Pfizer and Oracle. He currently directs global product engineering for Pfizer’s Digital Manufacturing organization, shaping architecture and driving AI, real-time analytics, and agentic paradigms to modernize manufacturing and supply chain operations. He has a strong hands-on background in microservices, observability, CI/CD, and secure-by-design engineering, and has led teams delivering mission-critical systems with enterprise SLAs and GxP compliance. Previously he led large digital transformation efforts (e.g., national tax system delivery) and open-source initiatives that coordinated 30+ engineers across Europe, showing an ability to align cross-organizational contributors. A long-standing interest in high-performance computing, time-series forecasting and applied data science complements his product focus, enabling pragmatic adoption of ML/AI in regulated environments. Based in Thessaloniki, he blends research-grade technical depth with proven delivery at scale and a track record of developing engineering leaders.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, candidate, High Performance Computing, Big Data Analytics, Time Series Forecasting, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, candidate, High Performance Computing, Big Data Analytics, Time Series Forecasting at Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.)
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
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Athanasios Salamanis - Director, Product Engineering at Pfizer