Aggeliki Karabassi
Senior Engineering Manager (Strategic Delivery / Operations)
Experience
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lecturer – Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality
University of Piraeus
- Taught undergraduate courses in computer graphics and virtual reality.
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
Education
Cornell University
Certificate · Performance Management
Cornell University
Certificate · Executive Leadership
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
BSc in Computer Science · Computer Science · Athens, Greece
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