Reduced manual annotation effort by up to 98.8% through foundation-model-driven tooling.
AI Project Lead • Full-Stack Engineer • Cybersecurity Systems
Lead AI Developer building cybersecurity and AI systems for production environments.
Lead AI Developer, Full-Stack Engineer, Cybersecurity Systems Builder, Machine Learning Engineer, Product-Minded Research Contributor
Lead AI Developer at Adrestia R&D, shipping intelligent systems across cybersecurity and distributed platforms with hands-on work in AI pipelines, backend services, and product-facing interfaces.
Role
Lead AI Developer
Focus
Cybersecurity + AI Systems
Base
Heraklion, Greece
Years building software professionally
5
major collaborative projects
1
IEEE CAI 2026 publication
2
PyPI tooling packages
Shipped backend, AI, and interface components across 5 major collaborative projects.
Contributed to 1 IEEE CAI 2026 publication and released 2 reusable PyPI packages.
About
A research-aware engineer focused on systems that have to work outside the lab.
Lead AI Developer at Adrestia R&D, focused on building production-grade intelligent systems in cybersecurity and distributed environments. I design and deploy machine learning and AI-driven solutions with an emphasis on scalable architectures, federated learning, and real-world threat detection.
My background spans full-stack engineering, which lets me bridge research and production systems while leading delivery across multidisciplinary teams.
Current leadership
Adrestia R&D
Driving production AI systems and project execution across collaborative engineering teams.
Technical scope
End-to-end systems
Hands-on across Python, Go, Vue, PHP, JavaScript, WebGL, backend services, and model-driven tooling.
Languages
Greek, English, French
Greek native, English professional working, French limited working.
Skills & Education
Hands-on across AI, backend systems, interfaces, and academic training.
AI / ML
Model-driven systems
LLMs, foundation models, semantic labeling, clustering workflows, and applied ML system design.
Backend / Infra
Services and distributed systems
Production backend development for cybersecurity and research-driven systems with an emphasis on reliability.
Frontend
Interfaces and visualization
Modern web interfaces, dashboards, and interactive browser experiences for product and research contexts.
Leadership
Delivery and product direction
Leading development teams, translating research into deployable systems, and managing AI-oriented product execution.
April 2026 - Present
Project Lead Developer, Adrestia R&D
Leading AI delivery for cybersecurity and distributed environments.
October 2023 - Present
Full-Stack Developer, Adrestia R&D
Built Go backend services, Vue interfaces, and Python AI applications.
April 2023 - October 2023
Web Developer, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Developed web applications with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
January 2023 - June 2023
Workshop Facilitator, Hellenic Mediterranean University
Taught Computer Organization workshop sessions focused on Assembly MIPS.
2016 - 2022
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
Hellenic Mediterranean University
2022 - Present
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Hellenic Mediterranean University
Selected Work
Horizon Europe delivery, publication work, and systems that connect research to production.
Featured Publication
Foundation Model-Driven Auto-Annotation
Contributed to an IEEE CAI 2026 publication on multimodal zero-shot annotation using DINOv2, CLIP, SigLIP2, and Chronos-based workflows.
- Up to 98.8% reduction in manual annotation effort
- Production-ready tooling for vision and time series
- Direct path from research models to practical preprocessing
Experience Timeline
2026 - Present
Project Lead Developer
Leading AI delivery at Adrestia R&D across cybersecurity and distributed environments.
2023 - Present
Full-Stack Developer
Built Go backend services, Vue interfaces, and Python AI applications across Horizon Europe projects.
2021 - 2023
University & product engineering roles
Worked across web applications, teaching support, and interactive web systems at HMU and Oqullar.
Horizon Europe
IT6G
Full-stack and cybersecurity engineering
Contributed to secure next-generation distributed systems work, bridging backend services, interfaces, and AI-oriented delivery tasks.
Horizon Europe
EUSOME
AI engineering and product delivery
Supported production-grade research collaboration through applied engineering, AI implementation work, and delivery-focused system development.
RG
Horizon Europe
REGULAIZE
Applied development for intelligent systems
Participated in scalable intelligent-system development and operational research delivery, helping move ideas toward deployable software.
Horizon Europe
RAIDO
Backend and AI-focused implementation
Worked on AI-driven backend implementation in distributed environments, balancing research goals with real deployment constraints.
Horizon Europe
CHAMELEON
Cross-functional engineering delivery
Contributed across frontend, backend, and AI-enabled solution delivery in a collaborative research and engineering environment.
Case Study
AI toolchains for data annotation
Built production-ready tooling for visual and temporal annotation workflows using foundation models and adaptive clustering.
Case Study
Cybersecurity and distributed systems delivery
Worked on backend and AI-oriented systems in cybersecurity contexts where reliability, scale, and research alignment all mattered.
Case Study
Frontend and interaction systems
Designed and implemented web interfaces, research tools, and interactive browser experiences across academic and product environments.