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Bio

Hi, I’m Florents! I was born 33 years ago. After living the first five years of my life in Albania in this house, I and my family moved to Salamis Island, Greece, where I grew up.

I use mathematics and machine learning to analyze & explain data. When the machine doesn’t learn, I do it the old-fashioned way: I use my brain and do my own learning instead.

Being a strong supporter of the concept of active citizenship; I am actively involved in voluntary initiatives whenever my effort and skills can be valuable to my fellow citizens.

The most impactful project I’m mostly proud of is diofanti.org; a free and public tool that tracks government spending in Greece.

Projects

Some of my open-source projects are

Postgres Extensions

  • pgllm: pgllm: Use LLMs in Postgres
  • pgPDF: pgPDF: Query PDFs from Postgres
  • jsonb_apply: Postgres JSON with a functional twist
  • pgJQ: A Postgres extension that brings jq to Postgres and SQL
  • vasco: A Postgres extension that brings correlation discovery to another level.
  • cookiecutter-postgres-extension: A cookiecutter template for a Postgres extension

SQLite Extensions

  • tsellm: tsellm: Use LLMs in SQLite and DuckDB
  • liteJQ: jq extension for SQLite.
  • WarcDB: A tool that serves crawl data as SQLite databases.

Professional Experience

I have research, working, and leadership experience across the entire data supply chain: from modeling and applying machine learning algorithms to multiple domains to engineering and managing production deployments of big data pipelines.

Some companies I have worked for or consulted for include: BCG, Deutsche Telekom, BASF, GfK, XING, BMW and Advantest among others.

Interests

In my free time, I eliminate free time. In particular, I try to read as many books as possible; I’m primarily interested in strategy, history, philosophy, and politics.