Angelos Athanasakis

Solutions Architect · GenAI & AWS

I design, ship and run production GenAI systems on AWS. Amazon Bedrock, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic architectures, owned end to end, from solution design and Terraform through model selection, evaluation, deployment and everything that happens after.

Three live systems in daily use. Before this, fifteen years in hospitality, six of them running a hotel.

Angelos Athanasakis Athens, Greece
12×
AWS certifications, including Solutions Architect and DevOps Professional
3
GenAI systems live in production
150,000
SKUs made searchable in natural language
100
AWS accounts under automated observability

How I work

Building it is half the job

Three principles that show up in every system I've delivered, and the reason clients keep using them after I've moved on to the next thing.

Every answer shows its sources

A generated answer nobody can verify is worse than no answer. Every system I build links back to the exact document it drew from, so the user checks in one click rather than trusting on faith.

The client owns their own data

Every system ships with the ability to add, update and remove source documents from the interface. No dependency on me to load a new catalogue. That's the difference between delivering a project and delivering a capability.

The client shouldn't be the one who notices

Around 130 alarms across three production systems, deliberately more than strictly necessary. Fifteen years in hotels teaches you that the guest must never be the person who discovers the problem.

I run what I build

Sole ownership of the full operational lifecycle: monitoring, patching, updates and incident response across three live applications. Most incidents resolved within hours.

Capabilities

What I build with

GenAI & LLMs

Amazon Bedrock Bedrock AgentCore RAG Knowledge Bases Embeddings Hybrid search Evaluation Claude Amazon Nova Qwen VL

AWS

Lambda DynamoDB S3 CloudFront EC2 OpenSearch VPC & endpoints IAM CloudWatch Control Tower

Infrastructure & delivery

Terraform GitLab CI/CD Git Bash automation Multi-account Jira Confluence

Client-facing

Scoping Solution design Demos to founders & MDs Technical training Sole delivery Greek & English (C2)

Certifications

Twelve AWS certifications

Two Professionals, all three current Specialties, and the full Associate track, earned alongside delivery work, not instead of it. Every badge below links to its Credly verification.

Foundational & other

AI Practitioner Cloud Practitioner Azure Fundamentals MS Security Fundamentals Microsoft 365 Fundamentals CompTIA IT Fundamentals LanguageCert English C2

How I got here

Fifteen years before the first line of Terraform

Fifteen years in hospitality: front office, night audit, and six years as General Manager of a boutique Athens hotel, leading a team of nine. Later, overnight operations at a 300-room five-star resort in Cyprus, where the building is your problem between midnight and dawn and nobody is coming to help.

In 2023 I started learning AWS. By 2026 I held twelve certifications and was shipping production GenAI systems as the sole architect for clients in Greece.

Read the full story
Night shift · 300 rooms
1
Unscheduled arrivalno warning, nobody else on shift
2
Front deskone entry point, never closes
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Availabilitycheck capacity first
4
Room and keyallocate, then hand back a credential
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Night auditreconcile, find what does not balance
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Escalatewake someone only when it is worth it
Fifteen years of this before I knew any of it had names.

Contact

Open to remote roles worldwide

Remote worldwide, or hybrid in Athens. Flexible on time zones, including US hours. Greek and English (C2).