Summary
Giannis Kotsias is a hands-on software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building AI-powered, cloud-native platforms that solve real-world problems from hospitality to environmental monitoring. As Co-Founder & CTO of askHermis he leads development of a multilingual, omnichannel SaaS assistant for hotels, and he has also helped launch a stealth AI startup streamlining government funding discovery for Greek businesses. His background spans backend systems, FastAPI services, containerized deployments, real-time computer vision pipelines, and mobile integrations—work that produced a 300% performance improvement on an environmental monitoring project. Based in Athens, he combines academic grounding in Informatics with international FinTech exposure and a penchant for turning research-grade AI into operational products that run 24/7. An avowed builder, he brings both entrepreneurial drive and deep engineering craft to early-stage ventures.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Informatics and Telecommunications, BSc (Hons) Informatics and Telecommunications at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
2nd Senior High School of Dafni-Ymittos
Exchange FinTech, Exchange FinTech at USI Università della Svizzera italiana
English, Greek