Savas Parastatidis

Bio

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI. Previously, he worked at Microsoft as Cortana's architect, a project that he helped start. At Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He led various e-Science projects while in Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. Savas' web corner (including his blog) can be found at https://savas.me and his twitter stream https://twitter.com/savasp.