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Vangelis Gkiastas
From Greece 10:56 PM (GMT+03:00)
$60/hr or $80,000/yr

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Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer
Available for hire
Years of experience
7+ years
Experience level
Senior
Available for
Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance
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I have been building scalable, production-level AI solutions for over 7 years, moving from fast-paced startups to global marketplaces. I have achieved high-impact results, including winning a European AI innovation challenge and architecting modular prediction systems that handle millions of real-time interactions.

I am looking for a Senior Machine Learning / Data Science / AI role where I can take full ownership of the machine learning lifecycle—from problem formulation and research to deployment and monitoring. What sets me apart is my dual background in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics; it allows me to bridge the gap between complex research and a pragmatic, engineering-first mindset that prioritizes maintainable, high-performance code over academic novelty.

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Employment History

Machine Learning Engineer at Neurons Lab 2023 - 2024
● Implemented LLM-driven features for a personal CRM, including smart notifications, RAG-based action recommendations and predictive models for user retention and personalized communications, increasing subscriptions by 32%.
Senior Data Scientist at Instashop Current 2023 - Now
● Owned a production XGBoost-based ML system to predict real-time availability across millions of products, replacing unreliable store-reported stock status and reducing cancelled orders by 12%. ● Upgraded the delivery time prediction system with a multi-stage LightGBM architecture and automated CI/CD pipelines for training and real-time inference, improving ETA error by 25% over the previous version. ● Built an internal LLM-powered Text-to-SQL chatbot using RAG and schema-aware prompting, cutting data-related Jira requests by 80% and enabling self-service reporting for business teams.
Data Scientist at Wings ICT Solutions 2021 - 2023
● Owned a real-time wildfire detection system using YOLO, CNNs, and OpenCV , including model training on field data, video processing, evaluation, and automated alerts within 30 seconds, achieving 96% accuracy. ● Developed time-series forecasting and anomaly detection solutions for air-quality and energy platforms, using LSTM, ARIMA, Prophet and other ML methods to predict PM levels, electricity consumption, and detect abnormal patterns. ● Designed NLP pipelines for text classification and knowledge graph construction from unstructured nutrition data, using document embeddings and entity recognition to reduce processing time by 10x. ● Led a 4-person team, guiding task planning and technical needs to deliver ML solutions meeting business requirements.
Data Scientist | Machine Learning at InAccel 2019 - 2021
● Developed Python ML libraries with FPGA/GPU acceleration, achieving up to 20x speedups. ● Built and evaluated end-to-end ML solutions, from statistical models for tabular data to neural networks for CV/NLP, with Dockerized cloud deployments for scalable inference. ● Led our system's successful submission to MLPerf benchmark, collaborating with companies including Google and NVIDIA. ● Consulted with global fintech clients to deliver data-driven insights for credit scoring, fraud detection and stock prediction.
Research Data Scientist at Hellenic Army 2018 - 2019
● Automated database entry and enabled large-scale geospatial data analysis through visualization and statistical analysis ● Improved event detection efficiency by 42% compared to traditional methods, by building machine learning techniques
Intern Data Scientist at Infolyseis 2017 - 2017
● Developed a custom data analysis tool for medical information, enabling efficient trend detection and data visualization

Education

Master of Applied Mathematics & Data Science at National Technical University of Athens 2020 - 2022
Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Thessaly 2013 - 2018