Fotis Savva
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFotis Savva is an applied machine learning engineer and Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle with a decade of experience bridging research and production-grade systems. He leads Text-to-SQL LLM work for MySQL HeatWave GenAI and has owned full ML model lifecycles for HeatWave Autopilot, from synthetic data generation and experimentation to deployment and monitoring. His background includes a PhD in Computer Science and academic roles at the University of Glasgow, where he applied ML to networked systems and taught big data and database courses. At Oracle he also contributed to AWS control plane and AuthN/AuthZ layers, demonstrating a blend of ML, databases, and security-aware engineering. Fotis has a track record of delivering end-to-end solutions that move novel research into scalable cloud products. Based in the UK, he combines deep academic rigor with practical systems-building instincts that surface in both model design and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st Class Hons, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st Class Hons at The University of GlasgowDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Greek, English
Github Skills (18)
portable9
gradient9
scalable8
distributed-systems8
machine-learning8
scala8
java8
xgboost8
dataflow8
gbm7
spark7
dask7
boosting7
python7
big-data6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Skeftical/modelbasedaqp
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
ML-AQP reproducibiltiy repository
Contributions:334 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
machine-learningapproximate-query-processingquery-driven
Skeftical/skeftical.github.io
Oct 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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