Fotis Savva
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFotis Savva is an applied machine learning engineer and Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle with a decade of experience bridging research and production-grade systems. He leads Text-to-SQL LLM work for MySQL HeatWave GenAI and has owned full ML model lifecycles for HeatWave Autopilot, from synthetic data generation and experimentation to deployment and monitoring. His background includes a PhD in Computer Science and academic roles at the University of Glasgow, where he applied ML to networked systems and taught big data and database courses. At Oracle he also contributed to AWS control plane and AuthN/AuthZ layers, demonstrating a blend of ML, databases, and security-aware engineering. Fotis has a track record of delivering end-to-end solutions that move novel research into scalable cloud products. Based in the UK, he combines deep academic rigor with practical systems-building instincts that surface in both model design and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st Class Hons, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1st Class Hons at The University of GlasgowDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Greek, English
Github Skills (14)
machine-learning8
xgboost8
java8
dataflow7
dask7
python7
scala7
gbm7
distributed-systems7
spark7
oracle6
hadoop6
gradient-boosting6
camp4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Skeftical/skeftical.github.io
Oct 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
Skeftical/cyprus_budge_explorer
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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