About Me

Yianni Zavaliagkos headshot

Hello, I'm Yianni Zavaliagkos

I obsess over things. Right now, that thing is agentic AI.

Based in Boston, MAMcGill University — AI/ML focus

Who I Am

Someone who goes deep. I thrive in small teams where you know everyone's name, care about the full picture of a company, and feel the weight of what you're building together. I'm moving to San Francisco soon and looking for the right group of people to obsess over something great with.

Professional Experience

I've shipped code across the spectrum — scrappy startup mode at Zipper and large-scale systems at Microsoft and RTX BBN. These days I'm all in on agentic AI, augmenting my workflow with Claude and code and pushing what's possible in the way I build. See specifics on my projects page.

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Hobbies & Interests

  • Traveling18 countries and counting. I'm a backpack-it, hostel-it, figure-it-out-when-I-get-there kind of traveler. Hiking, wandering, and staying somewhere new as long as possible.
  • ChessMy peak rating was 1923 in the rapid time format. I was the captain of the B team at McGill for the CCG.
  • SkiingA recent obsession that's fully taken over. 16 days on the mountain in 2025, already at 18 in 2026. Most weekends, if there's snow, I'm there.
  • CookingBorn a foodie, I've always liked cooking for others. You need to try my brown butter chocolate chip cookies.

Technical Skills

AI & Agentic

Agentic EngineeringClaude CodeMCPsLLMsML

Engineering

Full-StackTypeScriptNodeSwiftSpring BootMongoDBFirebaseKafkaDockerGitGrafana

Product

Product SenseRequirements & DiscoveryClient CommunicationFigmaNotionJira