Summary
Spyros Avlonitis is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building production-grade web and ML systems across travel, aviation, retail, and startups. He has led ML teams at KLM—transitioning on-premise infrastructure to GCP and productionalizing data scientists' models—and now develops ML solutions at Booking.com. Earlier roles span senior full-stack engineering and API-driven OCR services at HQengine and product leadership at Nike where he shipped an automated ad bid optimization platform that improved MOAS by 7%. Spyros combines hands-on backend and cloud expertise (Ruby on Rails, AWS, GCP) with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam, enabling him to bridge research models and reliable deployment. He’s comfortable scaling both systems and teams, with a track record of turning operational challenges into automated ML pipelines. A practical problem-solver, he often pairs product-focused thinking with low-level engineering to deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, Greek, English