Vangelis Koukis is the CTO and Co-Founder of Arrikto. He holds a PhD in computer science and has a long history of working in storage, data management, and cloud computing. At Arrikto, he is leading a team of talented engineers working hard to bridge the world of low-latency, high-performance local storage with eventually consistent, massively scalable object stores, and decentralized synchronization. Their vision is to empower real change in how Data Scientists and ML Engineers create end-to-end workflows for building, training, and serving models at global scale.