
Konstantinos Servis
Engineer in research
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Data & AI Engineer with 15+ years building scalable data pipelines and HPC systems for space science applications. Specialized in astronomical algorithms, crater detection, and JWST galaxy data analysis at leading research institutions. Expert in Python/Scala/FastAPI with proven success optimizing processing efficiency for complex astrophysical datasets.
Work experience
Engineer in research
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
Nov 2024 - Present
2 years
Marseille, France
• Conducted data release for COSMOS Web and COSMOS Spectroscopic Redshift Compilation, which is focused on the most distant known galaxies from JWST data. • Reengineered the GAZPAR backend system using FastAPI/Python, enhancing galaxy redshift determination processes. • Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, contributing to cutting-edge astrophysical research.
Data Engineering Tutor - BD Tech Director
Code.Hub
Jun 2018 - Present
8 years 5 months
Greece, NY 14626, USA
• Guided experienced professionals in transitioning to Data Engineering through hands-on projects and theoretical knowledge. • Developed comprehensive case studies focusing on technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, and Spark. • Collaborated with a dynamic team at Code.Hub, a startup dedicated to empowering tech talent in Greece.
CSIRO
Sep 2019 - Jan 2025
5 years 5 months
Kensington WA 6151, Australia
Senior Data Scientist
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
3 years 10 months
Kensington WA 6151, Australia
Developed advanced astronomical algorithms for crater detection and transient detection at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to enhance high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities for space science applications. Contributed to significant improvements in data processing efficiency, enabling faster analysis of astronomical phenomena. Ongoing development and application of the crater detection algorithm and application on Moon, Mars and Mercury among others, leading to published research. Participated in obesrvation field trips. Protoryped and guided users in transitioning to data management and using object storage. Prototyped and guided users in ML application on HPC. Involved in Australian Space Data Analysis Facility to promote and facilitate space data usage Involoved in numerous publications and presentations.
Astronomy Support Specialist - HPC
Sep 2019 - May 2021
1 year 9 months
Kensington WA 6151, Australia
• Developed advanced astronomical algorithms for crater detection and transient detection at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. • Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to enhance high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities for space science applications. • Contributed to significant improvements in data processing efficiency, enabling faster analysis of astronomical phenomena.
Data Engineer
Snowplow Analytics
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
1 year 11 months
Remote (London, UK)
• Developed and maintained scalable data pipelines for Snowplow analytics, utilizing Scala. • Contributed to both open-source and internal projects, enhancing analytics capabilities for clients. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize data processing on AWS and GCP.
Big Data Engineer - AWS Architecture
Atypon
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
1 year
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Working principally on the passport analytics module which is a self-service analytics module for the main SaaS product of the company. Responsible for ingestion/ETL and monitoring. Technologies used include Spark, Scala, Python, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS and EMR.
Senior Big Data Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year
Sydney NSW, Australia
Worked on a number of projects for team Omnia, principally on the transactional data pipeline using scala, scalding, map reduce and hive. Introduced driven to the team to help increase performance and cut down costs. Started a number of initiatives to drive down cost and increase efficiency such as using better compression in HDFS, improving release process and version control of release.
AWS Architecture Consultant
Atypon
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
5 months
Remote (San Jose, US and Athens, Greece from Sydney)
Developed AWS infrastructure pilot of the Analytics and Search capabilities of the company. This involved CloudFormation, Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, Data Pipeline, S3, OpsWorks.
Senior Data Analyst
Atlassian
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
8 months
Sydney NSW, Australia
Setup the AWS subaccount for the growth department, including VPC, DNS using Ansible and CloudFormation, cutting down provisioning time of production and demonstration systems from days and even weeks to minutes. Setup the real-time analytics pipeline using Kafka, Storm, Influxdb and Grafana, enabling real-time view of user behaviour for experiment analysis, abuse detection and behaviour triggered communications. Improved the reliability and stability of the batch ETL and improving the time data was available in the Hive and Redshift data warehouse, using AWS data pipeline, SQS, ECS, Docker, Scala and Akka and Avro. Introduced integration testing for the analytics events relay service, and improved unit test coverage using Docker and JUnit. Improved early detection of data product inconsistencies, by introducing data product quality testing, using Scala, SBT and Bamboo.
Data Analysis Engineer
Everyday Hero
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
5 months
Brisbane QLD, Australia
Developing the analytics infrastructure and general back-end services and conducting ad-hoc analysis.
Senior Software Developer
Innogames GmbH
Feb 2013 - Jul 2014
1 year 6 months
Hamburg Area, Germany
Back end development, supporting the analytics department in reaching their short and long term objectives by developing batch and real time big data infrastructure and applications. Specifically, developed the Event Tracking system of InnoGames using to a greater or lesser degree: Twitter Kestrel, Twitter Storm, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Dropwizard, Sinatra, MongoDB, Akka and d3.js. Additionally worked in providing data to the BI system, and in ad hoc analysis. Languages used mostly were Scala, Java, Ruby and Perl.
Software Developer
HIE
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
3 months
Brisbane QLD, Australia
Web services developer in the healthcare industry, using JRuby, Sinatra and Chef.
Research Assistant
Oracle
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
2 months
Brisbane QLD, Australia
Research assistant with the program analysis team at Oracle Labs.
Software Engineer
APNIC
May 2009 - Jul 2012
3 years 3 months
Brisbane QLD, Australia
Mostly web-development on LAMP(erl) and networking. Software types: domain specific (internet governance) resource administration system, event management and support systems.
Software Developer
Mirrabooka Systems
Jan 2006 - Jan 2009
3 years 1 month
Brisbane QLD, Australia
Software development, mainly C and Java. Application domain: healthcare administration. Software types: low-level DB development, networking, UI.
Database Administrator
Victoria Police Force
Jan 2006 - Oct 2006
10 months
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Maintenance and development of database applications and reporting.
Education
Curtin University
Master of Philosophy - MPhil
2020 - 2025
5 years
Swinburne University of Technology
PGCert
2015 - 2020
5 years 1 month
The University of Queensland
MSc
2011 - 2012
1 year 1 month
The University of Queensland
PGDip
2010 - 2011
1 year 1 month
The University of Queensland
PGCert
2009 - 2010
1 year 1 month
Heriot-Watt University
BSc
2000 - 2004
4 years 1 month