Stergios Anastasiadis
General Partner with Genesis Ventures, Investor Investor, Software Developer, Mentor | ex-Google, Shopify
Stergios Anastasiadis
General Partner with Genesis Ventures, Investor Investor, Software Developer, Mentor | ex-Google, Shopify
Greece
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2020 - Current
A pre-seed venture capital fund and accelerator. Unlocking €40M with tickets from €100k-€400k. Aspiring to make Greece 🇬🇷 a tech startup hub 🚀. Helping make as many unicorns as possible 🦄.
Angel Investor. Advisor. Board Member.
2015
Active in the North American and European technology scene as an Angel Investor and Advisor. Currently invested in 5 technology startups and mentoring technology leads around the world.
Board Member
2020
Lead investor and Director. Soffos uses AI-driven Socratic micro-learning for workplace learning and development.
Head Of Engineering
2018 - 2020
Leading Machine Learning/NLP, Application and Growth teams. Building an R&D team that values the craft of engineering, the value of strong teams, and uses that passion to build and operate great software at scale. Involved in ETL and ML pipelines, Graphs, Retrieval/Ranking, Monitoring, GraphQL/React, Apache Spark, Python, TensorFlow.
Board Member
2015 - 2019
Drive innovation in Greece by supporting Greek tech companies through an acceleration program in California.
Director of Engineering
2016 - 2018
Responsible for Engineering in Toronto, working on critical mandates: Application Platform, Merchant Marketing Platform, Channels Platform and Retail. Building out and launching innovation initiatives (ie AR/VR, Shipping, Flash Sales). Growing Women in Technology both inside and outside of Shopify. A Team Builder with Leads of Leads structure, and a healthy team composition. Team reached ~150 devs.
Senior Engineering Manager
2011 - 2016
Delivered Google+ Mobile clients for Android, iOS and mobile web. Delivered Google Fiber into market. Focus area was mobile 2nd screen, though there are other consumer experiences being build. Grew a remote team from 4 to over 70, that included engineers, test, UX, Research, Product, and Technical Project Managers. Assisted with STEM, Diversity, and Hiring at the site.
VP of Research and Development
2010 - 2011
(Acquired by Google) End to end engineering ownership of server and mobile development. Integrated with 3rd party providers, including operator billing systems & back-office goods inventory systems. Coordinated with customers to update dynamically storefronts, and deployed software into production. Responsible for all hiring & growth aspects of the company.
Senior Vice President Of Engineering
2009 - 2010
(Acquired by Visto Corp) As a member of the executive team and an integral part of the strategic planning activities that also included four acquisitions, build an engineering organization across 4 geographical locations. Facilitate tactical and strategic needs between product management, engineering, professional and operational teams, and customer service team to streamline the process for delivering product to the end customer. Use Agile for frequent market delivery with quality and scale considerations.
VP of Engineering
2006 - 2009
As a member of the executive team and an integral part of the strategic planning activities that also included four acquisitions, build an engineering organization across 4 geographical locations. Facilitate tactical and strategic needs between product management, engineering, professional and operational teams, and customer service team to streamline the process for delivering product to the end customer. Use Agile for frequent market delivery with quality and scale considerations.
Senior Director Of Engineering
2002 - 2006
(Acquired by Odyssey, former XEye Corp) Responsible for all aspects of a delivery that includes business analysis, requirements, architecture, UI, development & testing as well as delivery to end customer. Deliver complex products for financial institutions in the Wealth Management space.