Summary
Christos Mantas is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years' experience building large-scale search, recommendation, and ML systems across startups and social platforms, now based in Athens. He specializes in NLP, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search for multimodal data, and backend big-data engineering, with hands-on Vectors/ES indexing, Spark pipelines and Airflow integrations. At Tumblr and Skroutz he combined rigorous A/B experimentation and statistics with production-grade engineering to improve ranking and discovery for millions of queries daily. A former PhD researcher in cloud resource management, he brings strong systems thinking and a passion for clean, testable code and bias-aware analysis. Colleagues would note his unusual mix of product-minded tech leadership and deep interest in cognitive biases that inform how models are evaluated and shipped.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 73%, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 73% at Athens University of Economics and Business
high school diploma, high school diploma at Athens College – Hellenic American Education Foundation
University College London
English, German, Greek