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.
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Automotive (16 years), Manufacturing (16 years), Information Technology (5.5 years), Biotechnology (3 years), Healthcare (3 years), and Education (2 years).
Business Areas Experience
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Experienced in Product Development (24 years), Research and Development (16 years), Quality Assurance (16 years), Information Technology (4.5 years), Project Management (3 years), and Operations (2 years).
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.
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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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