Short Bio

Stavros Niafas is a ML engineer and an MLflow ambassador with major in Informatics Engineering and Msc's in Data Science and in Image Synthesis & Multimedia. As a professional ML practitioner has demonstrated experience in both R&D and production settings, from driving ML experiments and PoC's into mature codebases to support e2e ML pipelines and systems. Stavros is a results oriented individual and perceives his craft as a mean to achieve a certain goal. He keeps a high sense of ownership and he's genuinely dedicated to promote and establish a healthy AI culture within the teams and bridge the gap between technical complexity to non-technical audiences. Stavros is also actively engaged in FLOSS contributions, MLOps and systems engineering with strong foundations in Linux environments. In analogue world, photography is his passion and vinyl collection his secret affair.

Resume Updated: 7/2025

Talks

Fosscomm 2020

Photography Style Analysis w/ ML

Fosscomm 2021

Real-world MLOps with open source
MLOps in practice w/ MLFlow

Fosscomm 2022

Democratizing ML