About

Antonios Chalkiopoulos is the Founder and CEO of Lenses.io, a real-time applications and data operation portal. With almost 20 years of relevant experience, Antonios is an expert in data engineering, big data, AI, and machine learning. He has worked with various companies, including Barclays and BSkyB, where he served as Lead Data Engineer and developed real-time data pipelines and AI/ML applications for media and betting use cases. Antonios holds an MSc in Distributed Systems & High-Speed Networks from the University of Oxford, where he also earned his BSc in Computer Science. His technical skillset includes AWS, Azure, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, HDFS, ETL, Scala, and Apache Hive, among others. At Lenses.io, Antonios is focused on creating a new class of real-time data applications that can run on any infrastructure and be developed by any team, regardless of their level of expertise. He believes in democratizing data in real-time and providing security, regulations, single sign-on, data masking, and role-based access control. Antonios is passionate about empowering platform data engineers, developers, and businesses by reducing the pain and cost of data tech. His expertise in data engineering and real-time data applications has enabled him to develop Lenses.io into a platform that provides the best building blocks for data platforms, including Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and other data technologies. Overall, Antonios Chalkiopoulos is a highly skilled and experienced data expert who is dedicated to creating innovative solutions that enable teams to create successful and repeatable real-time digital data experiences.