George Perakis
Co-Founder at Athens University of Economics and Business
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Perakis is a business-oriented machine-learning engineer and co-founder with eight years of experience building production ML systems that drive personalized recommendations, multimodal search, and content moderation. He combines an academic grounding in applied mathematics and data science with hands-on expertise in deep learning, NLP, retrieval, and MLOps to translate ambiguous product goals into measurable engagement and retention outcomes. George has led search and IR teams, shipped retrieval-augmented generation and multimodal transformer solutions, and architected streaming feature stores and experimentation pipelines for consumer platforms and SaaS. A seasoned educator, he teaches content analytics and deep learning to business analysts, bridging technical methods and commercial insight. Based in Athens, he also co-founded Discoverly to apply AI to local discovery, and outside work he tinkers with hobby electronics and advises early-stage teams on data strategy.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Data Science, Master of Science - MSc, Data Science at Athens University of Economics and BusinessBachelor of Science - BS (4 years), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS (4 years), Mathematics at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
English, Greek
Github Skills (19)
trend6
kernel-methods5
python5
data-science4
bioinformatics4
scientific-computing4
data-analysis4
regular-expression3
machine-learning3
graph3
similarity3
manipulation2
scikit2
lightning2
nlp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gperakis/Sentiment-Analysis-On-Customer-Reviews
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:86 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
LinkGeoML/LGM-SimilarityLearning
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 49 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
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