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Aggeliki Karabassi

Senior Engineering Manager (Strategic Delivery / Operations)

Aggeliki Karabassi
Athens, Greece

Experience

Sep 2025 - Present
5 months

Senior Engineering Manager (Strategic Delivery / Operations)

BaxEnergy – Yokogawa Electric Corporation

  • Lead the transition of delivery practices to balance agile development with the structure of a global industrial organization.
  • Translate customer requirements into roadmap, in a post-acquisition environment.
  • Ensure the SaaS platform evolves to meet changing customer and market needs.
  • Advise senior management and BaxEnergy board members on delivery risks, improvements in processes and platform evolution decisions.
Oct 2022 - Aug 2025
2 years 11 months

CTO / Development Manager

Saphetor SA

  • Owned end-to-end technology strategy, architecture, teams, budget, and delivery outcomes for AI-enabled healthcare data platforms operating under strict clinical and regulatory requirements.
  • Defined and executed the technology roadmap, balancing innovation, scalability, cost, and compliance.
  • Owned architecture decisions across application, data, and infrastructure layers, ensuring platform reliability, performance, and security.
  • Led technical discussions with international customers and partners on scalability, security, and integration.
  • Directed cloud strategy and consolidated multi-cloud environments to improve platform stability and cost efficiency.
  • Acted as the main link between science, product, and engineering, ensuring quality and compliance across all deliveries.
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year

Head of Development

OpenBet (formerly Scientific Games Digital)

  • Led engineering for high-volume, regulated systems supporting payments and account management.
  • Presented platform risks and modernization options to senior business leaders.
  • Scaled distributed engineering teams while maintaining stability of core betting and settlement services.
May 2019 - Nov 2021
2 years 7 months

Development Manager

OpenBet (formerly Scientific Games Digital)

  • Coordinated delivery across multiple teams working on core platform services.
  • Supported long-running customer deployments and platform migrations (William Hill, Caesars, Hard Rock, NLO).
  • Worked closely with product and customer-facing teams to align platform priorities.
Dec 2017 - May 2019
1 year 6 months

Development Lead

OpenBet (formerly Scientific Games Digital)

  • Led teams responsible for core betting and settlement functionality.
  • Worked daily with product, operations, and customer-facing teams.
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 year

Software Architect

Commsquare

  • Designed and optimized performance-critical systems for mobile core network analysis.
  • Worked on high-throughput packet processing applications for telecom data platforms.
Jan 2002 - Dec 2003
2 years

Lecturer – Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality

University of Piraeus

  • Taught undergraduate courses in computer graphics and virtual reality.
Jan 2001 - Dec 2016
16 years

Principal Engineer / Researcher / Team Leader

inos Hellas (Grenzebach Group)

  • Directed the design and delivery of industrial vision and AI systems for Tier-1 automotive OEMs (Porsche, Tesla, Audi, Fiat and more), ensuring zero-downtime and high-precision quality inspection on global production floors.
  • Worked directly on production floors to understand operational constraints and translate them into platform improvements.

Summary

Technology leader with 25+ years of experience helping organizations make long-term decisions about software, data, and platform strategy. I work with customers, product teams, and engineering, ensuring technology roadmaps address real business needs.

I have worked across regulated and high-stakes industries (HealthTech, Energy, Automotive, iGaming), where reliability, security, and compliance are essential. I have owned delivery outcomes, reported progress and risks to executive leadership, and supported board-level decision-making in high-stakes transformations. I am comfortable working with senior executives, explaining complex topics clearly, and aligning global teams around shared platform direction.

  • Executive Advisory: Advisor to senior stakeholders on platform evolution, risk, and architectural trade-offs.
  • Customer-Centric Strategy: Translate customer needs into clear product and engineering priorities across regions and markets.
  • Regulated Delivery: Extensive experience owning security, data protection, and operational risk management in regulated environments, under ISO 27001, GDPR, IVDR, and similar frameworks.
  • AI & Data Platforms: PhD background and long-term experience with AI adoption and data-driven systems focused on business value.

Languages

Greek
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced

Education

Dec 2024 - May 2025

Cornell University

Certificate · Performance Management

Dec 2024 - May 2025

Cornell University

Certificate · Executive Leadership

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

BSc in Computer Science · Computer Science · Athens, Greece

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