Yannis Katsaros
Founding Engineer at Friday Harbor
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolYannis Katsaros is a founding engineer and versatile software and data specialist with eight years of experience building production systems across finance, energy, and retail. He combines deep probabilistic and decision-science expertise (Bayesian statistics, Monte Carlo methods) with practical platform and cloud engineering skills (AWS, Airflow, Postgres) to turn complex modeling into automated, high-impact workflows. His background as a petroleum/reservoir engineer informs a data-driven approach to operational optimization—he’s replaced manual processes with automation that scaled savings from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Comfortable in languages from Python and SQL to Rust, OCaml, and Elixir, he ships both analytics and robust engineering tools for fast iteration. Now founding a startup focused on AI for loan origination and mortgage underwriting, he blends domain rigor with product-minded execution.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Petroleum Engineering at The University of Tulsa
English, Greek
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Github Skills (117)
validation10
parsing10
data-engineer9
pythonic9
json-schema9
programming-language9
notebook9
python9
ipython9
parser9
packaging9
jupyter9
translation9
docstrings9
compiler8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yanniskatsaros/who-scraped-my-car
May 2018 - Jun 2022
Web scraping car listings with Python and BeautifulSoup4
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 2 months
statisticspythoncarsmachine-learningbeautifulsoup
yanniskatsaros/advent-of-code
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:92 commits, 78 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
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