Nikolaos Loukas
Software Engineer at Arrikto Inc.
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Summary
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SeniorNikolaos 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
Github Skills (10)
notebook10
kubernetes10
kubeflow10
machine-learning10
google-kubernetes-engine10
minikube10
tensorflow10
jupyter10
ml10
typescript2
Programming languages (4)
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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