Konstantinos Servis

Engineer in research

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

PythonData EngineeringMachine Learning

Languages

EnglishGreekSpanishFrenchGerman

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.

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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

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