Apostolos Georgakis Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, SE

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

Athens, Attiki, GR

Consulting services on product and engineering leadership roles

New York City, US

* Leading BE and FE engineering teams to deliver multi platform user experiences across Discovery+* Align technical designs for the evolution of the video object model* Strategy alignment and product prioritization across multiple engineering teams and groups* Operational and engineering excellence improvements: build and deployment processes, Change.

Norrmalm, Stockholm County, SE

• Led teams to evolve the in-house Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform, enhancing user experience and security measures.
• Guided engineering, data, and ML teams to develop a Risk Assessment Framework for fraud detection and reducing credit risk.
• Negotiated 3rd party SaaS providers contracts, optimizing pricing, SLAs, and product requirements for cost efficiency and performance.
• Led the creation of the Data Governance group (vision, mission and strategy).

Oslo, 0105, NO

• Led strategic direction for data initiatives at Schibsted Media Group, driving key projects in data strategy and product roadmap alignment.
• Spearheaded GDPR and ePrivacy efforts, ensuring compliance and implementing Privacy by Design methodology.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams on technical domains like Audience Targeting, Fraud Detection, Data & Analytics, Data Warehousing, NLP, Image, Search & Discovery, User Modelling, etc.

Oslo, 0105, NO

• Led engineering teams at Schibsted to design and launch ML services for ad insertion workflows and moderation services.
• Developed tag management, image similarity, media personalization, and SEO optimization features.
• Implemented career development programs focused on cloud and ML disciplines.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led SCRUM teams to deliver innovative audio and video capabilities, enhancing end-user experience.
• Collaborated with OEMs to optimize hardware for improved user experience.
• Achieved call interoperability between Skype and Skype for Business on Android and iOS platforms.
• Worked with design teams to enhance UI/UX for audio and video calls.

Redmond, WA, US

• Delivered real-time KPI monitoring and alerting solution for Audio and Video services with 200m DAU.
• Led data quality and governance process including data collection, quality assurance, analytics, and Data Driven product development.
• Conducted data-driven root-cause analysis for AV user experience issues.
• Managed cloud capacity analysis and planning for Group Video calls for up to 25 participants.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

• Led R&D projects in video standardization and IP securing through patents at Ericsson AB in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Developed face detection and recognition on mobile devices, content-based multimedia retrieval, and 3D video synthesis.
• Extracted mobility patterns from wireless trace data for congestion detection and city planning.

Umeå, Västerbotten, SE

EU & SW funded R&D projects* Face crawler: a search engine for facial images based on face detection and recognition * Content based multimedia retrieval through feature extraction* Over-the-Top (OTT) encryption of audio calls on mobile phones* Statistical natural language processing (NLP) for self-organized content indexing

• Conducted research for EU funded projects in content-based text retrieval and artificial neural networks.
• Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in signal processing and pattern recognition.
• Developed innovative solutions to enhance search algorithms and improve user experience.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement cutting-edge technologies.

Slough, Berkshire, GB

Financial controller

Phd, Computing Science

Bs, Mathematics