About Me

Hello, I'm Yianni Zavaliagkos
I obsess over things. Right now, that thing is agentic AI.
Based in Boston, MA•McGill 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 looking to break into the startup world and find the right group of people to obsess over something great with — open to relocating wherever that takes me.
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.
View my projects →Hobbies & Interests
- Traveling — 18 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.
- Chess — My peak rating was 1923 in the rapid time format. I was the captain of the B team at McGill for the CCG.
- Skiing — A 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.
- Cooking — Born 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