Optasia
George Gkolfopoulos is a seasoned Big Data Engineer with a notable progression at Optasia since February 2022, serving as Team Leader and previously in roles as Big Data Engineer and Junior Data Engineer. Concurrently, Gkolfopoulos has contributed to the Academy of Athens as a Software and Machine Learning Engineer, focusing on developing classification models and crawlers for Greek articles. Prior experiences include IT Systems Administrator at HELLENIC PETROLEUM Group of Companies, managing both on-premises and Azure/O365 infrastructures, as well as Systems Technical Application Support within the OTE Group of Companies, where responsibilities included managing production environments and supporting microservices systems. Gkolfopoulos holds a Master's degree in Information Systems in Business and a Bachelor's degree in Informatics and Telematics from Harokopio University of Athens.
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We deliver Optasia, the AI Platform enabling financial access for the next billion customers. Α versatile, data-driven B2B2X (business-to-business-to-customers and SMEs) financial technology platform for MNOs, mobile wallet operators and financial institutions, which provides them with accurate credit scoring for responsible financing decision-making. We support intelligent credit decisions, enable a broad range of financial services development and drive successful business models. All with ease, through our AI-led fully-automated decisioning algorithm, which allows us to efficiently make millions of decisions on financing, based on sophisticated data analysis. Thanks to our technology and network we provide powerful flywheel effects with repeatable and scalable growth levers, to help our partners grow and enable financial access to retail & SME customers across numerous markets. Operating since 2012 as Channel VAS and expanded in more than 30 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and LATAM with focus in emerging markets, Optasia Enabling credit decisions for an average of 88 million customers a month and had more than 560 million addressible subscribers in 2021, continuing to expand to new markets globally. Optasia has been chosen as an investment opportunity by top firms such as Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital in 2017, and Ethos, a leading South African investment company in late 2018. The company also obtained ISO 27001 Certification in late 2021. Founded as Channel VAS in 2012, we became Optasia in 2022, incorporating a brand identity that more broadly reflects our capabilities.