Currently working as a Data Engineer within the Architecture team in Affectv. My role is to optimise and maintain our cutting edge, large scale infrastucture that allows the ingestion and processing of large volumes of incoming data. Also working on entity resolution and data deduplication within our data sources. Previously worked as a full stack engineer on several medium and large scale web applications. My postgraduate (Computer Science) and undergraduate (Applied Informatics) degrees provide me a solid theoretical background, useful in our seamlessly evolving profession. Scientific Interesets: Linux, Keyword Search,Databases, Cloud Computing, Information Retrieval, Entity Resolution

Data Engineer @ As a part of the Architecture team at Affectv, my role is to optimise and maintain our MapReduce infrastructure as well as develop techniques to perform entity resolution and data deduplication on our large scale data sources. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Development Engineer @ Worked in the development of several web applications. - Depending on the project's size, was responsible for several parts of the development process, including requirements engineering, system design, database design and optimization, front end and back end development. - All the projects were developed using Planbox as an agile development management tool while the versioning system used was GIT. - PHP was the language used for server side scripting, while Javascript, jQuery, CSS3 and HTML5 where the main tools used in the front-end. - In most of the cases the DBMS used was MySQL. However in some cases Microsoft SQL Server was used as well. - Worked with SOA and RESTful services on several projects. Apart from web development I participated on a number of desktop applications, implemented in Java and JavaFX From October 2011 to August 2013 (1 year 11 months) thessaloniki, greeceCo-Founder and IT Content Manager @ Responsible for SEO, LPO, online marketing strategy and content of the website flowexperiment.com. From January 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 9 months) thessaloniki, greece

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Distinction @ The University of Edinburgh From 2013 to 2014 Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 75 @ Panepistimion Makedonias From 2006 to 2011 Menelaos Kokolios is skilled in: Hadoop, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Python, SQL, Java, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Git