Iraklis Psaroudakis

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Iraklis Psaroudakis is working remotely from Greece as a Principal Software Engineer at Elastic, focusing on the distributed scalability of Elasticsearch. Previously, he was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Labs in Zürich, Switzerland, concentrating on parallel and distributed programming and on graph-based analytical and machine learning workloads, especially in financial crime and compliance applications. Prior to Oracle, he completed his Ph.D. at the DIAS lab of EPFL in Lausanne, focusing on scaling up highly concurrent analytical database workloads on multisocket multicore servers through: a) sharing data and work across concurrent queries; and b) adaptive Non‑Uniform Memory Access–aware (NUMA-aware) data placement and task scheduling. As he worked on his Ph.D., he collaborated with the SAP HANA database team. Before earning his Ph.D., he completed his studies in Electrical & Computer Engineering at NTUA in Athens.Iraklis Psaroudakis is working remotely from Greece as a Principal Software Engineer at Elastic, focusing on the distributed scalability of Elasticsearch. Previously, he was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Labs in Zürich, Switzerland, concentrating on parallel and distributed programming and on graph-based analytical and machine learning workloads, especially in financial crime and compliance applications. Prior to Oracle, he completed his Ph.D. at the DIAS lab of EPFL in Lausanne, focusing on scaling up highly concurrent analytical database workloads on multisocket multicore servers through: a) sharing data and work across concurrent queries; and b) adaptive Non‑Uniform Memory Access–aware (NUMA-aware) data placement and task scheduling. As he worked on his Ph.D., he collaborated with the SAP HANA database team. Before earning his Ph.D., he completed his studies in Electrical & Computer Engineering at NTUA in Athens.