I am a senior lead software engineer and senior research scientist at the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece. As a senior software engineer, I have been working for more than 8 years in all phases of the software development life cycle, namely design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment and maintenance. As a senior research scientist, I have been conducting research in the intersection of high performance computing, big data analytics and time series forecasting fields for more than 8 years. For the last 4 years, I have had the privilege to guide and mentor junior and mid-senior software engineers, machine learning engineers and data scientists in the context of either engineering or research projects. ©