# Dimitris Kirtsios

> Founder, CTO, and Staff-level Software Engineer based in Munich, Germany / London, UK. Currently founder & CTO at LYRASENSE, an agentic AI platform for satellite intelligence backed by the European Space Agency and Seraphim Space. Previously a Tech Lead at Elli (Volkswagen Group), one of the core contributors behind what is today Europe's largest EV charging network (1M+ stations).

8+ years of professional engineering across Munich startups and a Volkswagen-backed scaleup. Strongest cards are cloud / infrastructure and backend engineering, paired with a strong customer-facing track record (user-research interviews, technical demos, FDE-style work on enterprise sales). EWOR Fellow (0.1% acceptance) and Antler VC Entrepreneur in Residence (top 1%).

## Profile

- [Homepage](https://dimkirt.com): Personal site overview
- [About](https://dimkirt.com/about): Bio, values, and what I work on
- [CV](https://dimkirt.com/cv): Detailed curriculum vitae with full work history and tech stack
- [Resume](https://dimkirt.com/resume): One-page resume optimized for hiring conversations
- [Now](https://dimkirt.com/now): What I'm focused on right now
- [Talks](https://dimkirt.com/talks): Conference talks and public speaking

## Articles

- [Articles Index](https://dimkirt.com/articles): All long-form writing
- [AI Coding: Rediscovering the Magic](https://dimkirt.com/articles/ai-coding-rediscovering-the-magic): On AI-assisted development workflows
- [Game Days and Incident Management](https://dimkirt.com/articles/game-days-incident-management): Lessons from running GameDays for 51 backend engineers at Elli
- [Five Things That Will Give You An Unfair Competitive Advantage](https://dimkirt.com/articles/five-things-unfair-competitive-advantage): Startup engineering principles
- [Why Estimates Are Useless](https://dimkirt.com/articles/why-estimates-are-useless): On software estimation
- [Amor Fati: No Regrets](https://dimkirt.com/articles/amor-fati-no-regrets): Personal essay on accepting what is

## Current Role

- Founder & CTO at LYRASENSE (April 2024 – Present), London/Munich, Remote
- Co-founded with Nader Labib
- Agentic AI platform for satellite intelligence, backed by the European Space Agency and Seraphim Space
- Pilot customers include Aramco and Telefónica; design partners include Rio Tinto and the UN World Food Programme
- LYRASENSE: https://lyrasense.com
- LYRASENSE app: https://app.lyrasense.com

## Career Highlights

- Took LYRASENSE from zero to live as founding CTO; designed and built the agentic harness, RAG pipeline, cloud-native serverless notebook, and full web app end-to-end
- Tech Lead at Elli (Volkswagen Group), May 2020 – September 2023; promoted twice (Software Engineer → Senior → Staff Engineer); 3,000+ hours of on-call experience as part of the Incident Response Team; designed Elli's central event broker; reduced team tech-debt backlog from 85 to 30 tasks
- Antler VC Entrepreneur in Residence, January 2024 – April 2024 (top 1% of applicants)
- Speaker at BigTechDay 2021 ("Game Days @ Elli: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and to Love Incidents")
- 2nd place, Autonomy Class, RoboCup Rescue 2015 (Hefei, China) with the Pandora Robotics Team

## Technical Skills

- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
- Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Express, FastAPI
- Frontend: React, Vite
- Data: PostgreSQL, Supabase, MongoDB, Redis
- Messaging: GCP Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Cloud & Infra: GCP, AWS, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm
- AI / Agents: Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral & Gemini APIs, Agno (agent framework), agent design, RAG, prompt engineering
- Geospatial: Google Earth Engine, satellite/EO data pipelines, interactive mapping
- Domains: Agentic AI, geospatial intelligence, EV charging (OCPI, OICP), eMobility, ISO/IEC 27001
- Practices: Solution architecture, Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, IaC, CI/CD, trunk-based development, incident response, technical leadership, public speaking

## Education

- MSc, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Diploma Thesis: "Chronos: A simulation tool for Industrial WSN Design and Deployment"

## Languages

Greek (native) · English (professional) · German (basic)

## Contact

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dimkirt
- GitHub: https://github.com/dimkirt
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/dimkirt

## Optional

- [Full LLM Context](https://dimkirt.com/llms-full.txt): Expanded version with full work history and project details
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