Themis Mavridis
Software Engineering Tech Lead - AI & Privacy at Meta
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolThemis Mavridis is a seasoned software engineering tech lead specializing in applied machine learning, privacy, and large-scale search systems, with over a decade of experience driving product and revenue impact. Currently leading AI & Privacy at Meta after a long tenure at Booking.com, he has spearheaded real-time, low-latency personalized search ranking, pricing and ads integration, and cross-vertical ML platforms that scaled across a 70-person department. He blends hands-on ML research and engineering with product partnership, having introduced interleaving experimentation to accelerate development by 10x and delivered 40+ ML solutions that materially improved marketplace relevance. Comfortable with both infrastructure and experimentation design, he focuses on cold-start, exploration/exploitation trade-offs, and two-sided marketplace optimization. Trained in computer science and engineering (VU Amsterdam; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and experienced in algorithmic trading concepts from Oxford, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to building high-impact ML products.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Algorithmic Trading, Algorithmic Trading at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordBSc and MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSc and MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
active-learning9
cpp8
reinforcement-learning8
frontier8
machine-learning7
python7
eclipse6
cython6
amazon-ec26
tesseract6
ocr6
proxy-server6
io6
char6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
s-case/control-tower
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:199 commits, 181 pushes in 8 months
proxy-serverproxy
thmavri/SWebRank
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:100 commits, 107 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
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