Nikolaos Loukas
Manager, Data Solutions Engineer
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolNikolaos Loukas is a Manager, Data Solutions Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building MLOps, data engineering, and machine learning systems grounded in an Electrical & Computer Engineering background from NTUA. He has led global production deployments of Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks, engineered a triggered pipeline mode that cut streaming costs by up to 95%, and integrated Azure OpenAI for automated PII detection. His work spans research-grade NLP—where he merged fMRI-derived brain data with BERT and published conference work—to shipping robust CI/CD and testing for Kubeflow/Kale in production MLOps teams. Comfortable across Python, Scala, Spark, FastAPI and cloud platforms, Nikolaos blends deep research instincts with pragmatic solutions architecture and developer enablement. Based in Thessaloniki, he is notable for maintaining critical legacy pipelines single-handedly under operational constraints while driving modern migrations and team onboarding.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
18603/20000 (Top 1%, Greece), 18603/20000 (Top 1%, Greece) at National University Entrance ExaminationsBSc & MSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8, BSc & MSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8 at National Technical University of Athens
English, German, Greek
Github Skills (17)
notebook10
kubernetes10
google-kubernetes-engine10
python10
jupyter10
data-science10
kubeflow10
machine-learning10
ml10
kedro10
mlops10
tensorflow10
kubeflow-pipelines10
minikube10
k8s10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NickLoukas/manifests
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
A repository for Kustomize manifests
Contributions:107 PRs, 80 pushes, 111 branches in 2 months
k8skuberneteskustomizemanifests
NickLoukas/kubeflow
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
Contributions:96 PRs, 135 pushes, 108 branches in 3 months
pythondata-sciencemachine-learningmlopskubernetes
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