I am a senior technical R&D manager and senior lead software engineer at the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece. As a software engineer, I have been working for many years in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). As a technical R&D manager, I have had the privilege to guide software engineers & data scientists through challenging engineering and research projects. Moreover, I have been conducting research in the intersection of three scientific fields: big data analytics, time series forecasting and HPC.