- Joined
- Sep 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Thought MachinePrincipal Engineer
- Status
- Current
- Joined Cognition in Sep 2025 as Head of Field Engineering EMEA, based in London, roughly two months after Cognition acquired Windsurf (July 2025); he came from 11 years at Thought Machine rather than from Windsurf.Sep 2025
- Principal Engineer at Thought Machine (Oct 2021-Sep 2025) on 'Large-scale, company-wide technical initiatives; cloud cost optimisation, AI infrastructure, deployment health & production support, engineering hiring'. Combined with his earlier client-deployment work.Oct 2021
- Since joining Cognition his GitHub (bio 'Cognition AI') fills with demo-style repos: forks of COBOL/AWS mainframe modernization apps, OWASP Juice Shop, Societe Generale libraries, RealWorld example apps, plus his own fleet-maintenance-logistics and C# ledgerloop repos (Sep 2026). banking and industrial accounts).Sep 2026
- Director of Engineering at Thought Machine (Dec 2019-Sep 2021): 'Head of Core platform (Kernel department), led multiple teams on core product development + interfaced with field teams on strategic client roadmap items'.Dec 2019
- Thought Machine founding engineer (Dec 2014-Dec 2015), 'Building ML-driven personal finance management applications'.Dec 2014
- His Oxford homepage says he was in the Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Research Group (Engineering Science), finished his D.Phil in summer 2013, did a fellowship at the Oxford Mathematical Institute, then 'joined (autumn 2014) the startup Thought Machine as a Machine Learning scientist'.2014
- Technical Lead at Thought Machine (Jan 2017-Oct 2019) for 'Core platform and Treasury systems; data pipelines and streaming -- led client projects+deployments'.Jan 2017
- At Thought Machine as Senior Software Engineer (2016) he worked on the core platform: 'Vault smart contracts, ledger, accounts, treasury systems -- coupled w/ client-side field work'.2016
- Open source: GitHub ipsorakis hosts his D.Phil research code: mRVMs (multiclass relevance vector machines, 24 stars), commDetNMF (overlapping community detection via NMF, 11 stars), GMMevents (gathering-event inference from spatio-temporal data), BOMP (Bayesian one-mode projection), Facebird (great tit social network tools), PatentCodeAnalysis (technology networks, Python).Dec 2013
- Research Fellow in Mathematics at the University of Oxford (Sep 2013-Dec 2014): 'Joint work with Prof J. Doyne Farmer on time-series forecasting'.Sep 2013
- Public headline says "Building Cognition".
- Education: D.Phil. in Engineering Science (AI/ML), Oxford (2010-2013); MSc Information Technology, University of Glasgow (2008-2009); B.Eng/M.Eng Production Engineering, Polytechnion Kritis (Technical University of Crete) (2001-2008).2013
Large-scale, company-wide technical initiatives; cloud cost optimisation, AI infrastructure, deployment health & production support, engineering hiring
Head of Core platform (Kernel department), led multiple teams on core product development + interfaced with field teams on strategic client roadmap items
Core platform and Treasury systems; data pipelines and streaming -- led client projects+deployments
Development of core platform; Vault smart contracts, ledger, accounts, treasury systems -- coupled w/ client-side field work
Building ML-driven personal finance management applications
Joint work with Prof J. Doyne Farmer on time-series forecasting
Big graph analytics & scalable Machine Learning in security and psychographics. Also contributed to scientific proposals to US government agencies.
My research involves the development of Bayesian methodologies for probabilistic inference in spatio-temporal complex networks and tools that help us identify structure in large graph datasets that are dominated by noise and/or missing observations. I have also published in areas of supervised learning (relevance vector machines) and ensemble learning.
Research conducted in Mark Girolami's Inference Group on Bayesian classification models, in particular multi-class Relevance Vector Machines. Journal paper published in IEEE Transactions in Neural Networks.
5-year engineering degree, with 2-year break due to working as a software engineer
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"the vibes have been immaculate"
let's build together!
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