Panagiotis Katsaroumpas
Principal Data Engineer (Contract)
Barcelona, Catalonia, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPanagiotis Katsaroumpas is a Principal Data Engineer with 11 years of cross-industry experience blending theoretical physics rigor and pragmatic software engineering to build cloud-native data and ML platforms. He has led data pipelines, MLOps and backend architecture at enterprises like Booking.com, Schibsted and a major pharmaceutical firm, specialising in Python, Scala, Spark, AWS services and infrastructure-as-code. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and solution architecture, he designs scalable data lakes, experiment pipelines and real-time personalization systems while keeping operational reliability and compliance in mind. Based in Barcelona with a background as a Visiting PhD researcher at UCLA, he brings a researcher's attention to modeling and a teacher’s clarity—he’s also an AWS Authorized Instructor, which reflects his knack for distilling complex cloud concepts for practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Research Master Theoretical Physics (Cum Laude), Research Master Theoretical Physics (Cum Laude) at University of Amsterdam5 years Degree Applied Mathematics and Physics, 5 years Degree Applied Mathematics and Physics at National Technical University of AthensUniversity of California, Los AngelesPhD Theoretical Physics, PhD Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London
Github Skills (16)
matplotlib9
visualization8
data-visualization8
statistics8
pandas8
python8
approximate7
data-science7
data-analysis6
kafka3
scala3
akka3
cms2
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search2
blog-engine2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codiply/semio.js
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:112 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
codiply/machine-learning-engineer-interview
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:90 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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