AI Engineer with 6+ years turning business needs into working LLM and GenAI systems, owning the full lifecycle from problem framing and research to robust, production-ready implementation. Specialized in multi-agent pipelines, agentic tool use, RAG, and fine-tuned models. Currently leading AI R&D for cybersecurity applications at Sphynx Technology Solutions, including Swiss and European research initiatives, with measurable impact such as 70% faster analytics pipelines and ~50% fewer customer-reported errors.

Dimitris Eleftheriou

AI Engineer with 6+ years turning business needs into working LLM and GenAI systems, owning the full lifecycle from problem framing and research to robust, production-ready implementation. Specialized in multi-agent pipelines, agentic tool use, RAG, and fine-tuned models. Currently leading AI R&D for cybersecurity applications at Sphynx Technology Solutions, including Swiss and European research initiatives, with measurable impact such as 70% faster analytics pipelines and ~50% fewer customer-reported errors.

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AI Engineer with 6+ years turning business needs into working LLM and GenAI systems, owning the full lifecycle from problem framing and research to robust, production-ready implementation. Specialized in multi-agent pipelines, agentic tool use, RAG, and fine-tuned models.

Currently leading AI R&D for cybersecurity applications at Sphynx Technology Solutions, including Swiss and European research initiatives, with measurable impact such as 70% faster analytics pipelines and ~50% fewer customer-reported errors.

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Language

Greek, Modern
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English
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German
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Work Experience

Lead AI Engineer at Sphynx Technology Solutions AG
September 1, 2024 - Present
Led end-to-end development of multi-agent LLM/LMM systems for cybersecurity use cases, including CTI extraction and STIX automation, agentic hardware asset identification from images, and an AI Vulnerability Analyzer. Engineered service architecture using FastAPI for ingestion and asynchronous orchestration with Celery and RabbitMQ, persisted outputs via distributed tasks, and packaged deployments with Docker Compose. Built custom training datasets via automated crawling and fine-tuned open-weight models with designed evaluation metrics to improve extraction quality. Currently leading SOC automation and LLM-generated cyber range initiatives, and coordinating Swiss/European research collaborations.
Lead AI Engineer – Project Manager at Sphynx Technology Solutions AG
September 1, 2024 - Present
Led the R&D of a multi-agent pipeline leveraging LLMs and LMMs for advanced Cyberthreat Intelligence (CTI) extraction from unstructured data using Python, LangChain and Ollama. Developed CTI datasets from official and dark web reports using Python, Selenium, and BeautifulSoup. Fine-Tuned LLMs to optimize their performance in extracting CTI objects from text using PyTorch, Transformers and Unsloth. Developed LLMs and LLMs multiagent architectures using LangChain and LangGraph. Developed new evaluation metrics of ML models in CTI identification using Python. Directly assisted Cyber security Analysts by identifying new vulnerabilities in real time. Project management in Swiss/ European research projects related to AI in Cyber Security.
Data Science Instructor at Big Blue Data Academy
August 1, 2024 - September 6, 2025
Teaching compelling educational content relating to Data Science field such as Python, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Data Scientist at Circana
August 1, 2024 - September 6, 2025
Engineered a novel methodology in estimating accurate marketing campaign effectiveness using Python and MLlib. Resulting in 20% increase in accuracy of results and 50% decrease in computational time. Development of LLM enhanced chatbot using RAG for results demonstrations/explanations to customers. Integrated with Circana’s SQL Database for direct access of campaign results using Python and LangChain. Optimized ETL pipelines using PySpark, resulting in 50% decrease of computational time. Re-developed KPIs for measuring marketing campaign effectiveness using PySpark. Resulted in higher customer satisfaction and 70% percent decrease in computational time.
Data Science Instructor (part-time) at Big Blue Data Academy
September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
Taught Python, statistics, machine learning, and AI to 100+ professionals and students alongside full-time employment.
Data Scientist at Circana
October 1, 2021 - August 31, 2024
Prototyped and helped deliver an LLM-powered conversational RAG analytics product integrated with a company SQL database for natural-language campaign analytics. Engineered campaign attribution and KPI methodology using MLlib to increase accuracy by 20% while cutting computation time by half. Modernized large-data ETL/ML workflows in PySpark (preprocessing, feature extraction, outlier detection, training), reducing end-to-end processing time by ~50% and cutting KPI computation time by 70%, also reducing customer-reported KPI errors by ~50%.
Data Analytics Consultant at European Dynamics
October 1, 2021 - September 6, 2025
R&D of AI models -utilizing BERT encoders - for extracting skills acquired from unstructured educational programs curriculums and skills needed from unstructured job descriptions using PyTorch and Transformers. Achieving >90% accuracy. Project management of European Commission’s project (AI4EDUCAT).
Statistician (Internship) at Linked Business
August 1, 2020 - September 6, 2025
R&D in Market Segmentation analysis using Python. Utilized BERT encoders to analyze unstructured text descriptions of Greek companies' business codes. Developed Survival Analysis models of Greek enterprises utilizing their economic data using R.
Data Scientist at European Dynamics
March 1, 2020 - October 31, 2021
Built BERT-based multi-label classification models mapping European education programs to occupations for the European Commission (AI4EDUCAT), achieving 93% accuracy in extracting skills from unstructured curricula and job descriptions. Supported project management and stakeholder alignment across internal and external teams.

Education

MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning at University of West Attica
March 1, 2023 - May 1, 2024
MSc in Statistics at Athens University of Economics and Business
October 1, 2018 - March 1, 2020
BSc in Mathematics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
October 1, 2011 - June 1, 2017
MSc, Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning at University of West Attica
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
MSc, Statistics at Athens University of Economics and Business
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020
BSc, Mathematics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2017

Qualifications

Accelerating End-to-End Data Science Workflows - NVIDIA
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
Building Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing Applications - NVIDIA
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
Generative AI with Diffusion Models - NVIDIA
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
TensorFlow Developer Specialization - NVIDIA
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
DeepLearning.AI Introduction to Machine Learning in Production
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
Neural Networks and Deep Learning - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
Spark and Python for Big Data with PySpark
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
Introduction to Machine Learning in Production - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
Python OOP Course: Master Object-Oriented Programming - Udemy
January 11, 2030 - September 6, 2025
NVIDIA: Accelerating End-to-End Data Science Workflows
January 11, 2030 - July 19, 2026
NVIDIA: Transformer-Based NLP Applications
January 11, 2030 - July 19, 2026
NVIDIA: Generative AI with Diffusion Models
January 11, 2030 - July 19, 2026
DeepLearning.AI: TensorFlow Developer Specialization
January 11, 2030 - July 19, 2026
DeepLearning.AI: Intro to ML in Production
January 11, 2030 - July 19, 2026
DeepLearning.AI: Neural Networks and Deep Learning
January 11, 2030 - July 19, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Government, Computers & Electronics