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Founder & CTO · LYRASENSE · Munich ✕ London

Engineer.Founder.Builder.

EWOR Fellow 0.1%ESA + Seraphim backed1M+ EV stations
Dimitris Kirtsios

Founder and CTO of LYRASENSE, building agentic AI for geospatial intelligence. Before that, Staff Engineer and Tech Lead at Elli (Volkswagen Group), on the backend of Europe's largest EV charging network.

The story

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2010

Hello, world.

I started coding in high school, chasing the small thrill of making a machine do exactly what I said. That hit never wore off.

2018–2020

Learning the craft

Backend and infrastructure across Munich startups, where the fundamentals stuck: distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud from bare metal up.

2020–2023

The scaleup

At Elli, inside the Volkswagen Group, I helped build Europe's largest EV charging network. Promoted to Staff, led a team, 3,000+ hours on-call. I learned how big systems break, and how to keep them standing.

2024 →

Zero to live

Now founder and CTO of LYRASENSE, agentic AI for geospatial intelligence. Backed by the European Space Agency and Seraphim Space, serving Aramco and Telefónica. Same curiosity, a much bigger canvas.

Achievements

06 / 06 unlocked
Veteran Builderepic

Years shipping code, and still counting.

4.2% unlock rate
◌ Locked✓ Unlocked15+
Grid Keeperlegendary

EV stations live on Europe's largest charging network.

0.4% unlock rate
◌ Locked✓ Unlocked1,000,000+
Night Shiftrare

Hours on-call, holding critical infrastructure.

6.8% unlock rate
◌ Locked✓ Unlocked3,000+
Force Multiplierrare

Engineers put through GameDays incident drills.

5.1% unlock rate
◌ Locked✓ Unlocked51
Debt Slayeruncommon

Technical debt cut as Tech Lead, 85 tasks down to 30.

12.5% unlock rate
◌ Locked✓ Unlocked65%
Elite Fellowlegendary

EWOR Fellow acceptance rate. Selected anyway.

0.1% unlock rate
◌ Locked✓ Unlocked0.1%

Where I've built

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Current
Founder & CTO at LYRASENSE, EWOR Fellow
Previous
Tech Lead / Staff Engineer at Elli (Volkswagen Group)
Education
MSc Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Location
Munich, Germany / London, UK
Languages
Greek (native), English (professional), German (basic)
Tech
TypeScript, Python, Node.js, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, Terraform, GCP, AWS, Agno, LLMs, RAG, Agent Design