Athens, Greece · Open to collaboration
Konstantinos
Bardavouras
AI Solution Architect
I design and ship enterprise-grade AI systems on Microsoft Azure — from Generative AI and RAG assistants to the secure landing zones and governance that make them production-ready. 15+ years of cloud, data and infrastructure engineering behind every architecture decision.
From the datacenter floor
to the AI frontier
I'm an AI Solution Architect at PeopleCert, where I turn AI use cases from experiments into secure, scalable, reusable enterprise capabilities — knowledge assistants, AI agents and conversational experiences connected to trusted business content and workflows.
My path is unusual and it's my biggest asset: 15+ years across Unix systems, networking, enterprise storage, backup & disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud mean I understand the entire journey of a system — from the physical infrastructure to the tenant root to the LLM prompt. When I architect an AI platform, resilience, security and cost are not afterthoughts; they're in the blueprint from day one.
I thrive at the intersection of strategy, engineering and innovation — partnering with business and tech leaders to turn bold ideas into secure, data-driven outcomes.
Career timeline
AI Solution Architect
Designing enterprise AI on Azure: Generative AI applications, RAG knowledge assistants, AI agents and bot interfaces over trusted content and secure APIs. Building the company's AI Landing Zone — identity, networking, guardrails, monitoring — and driving responsible AI governance aligned with the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF.
Solutions Architect
Architected secure, scalable Azure solutions with a focus on data platforms and AI-ready pipelines — from ingestion to deployment and observability — applying MLOps practices to bridge experimentation and production, with governance-by-design throughout.
Cloud, Storage & Systems Engineering
A 12-year progression through the full infrastructure stack: Application Support → Senior Unix Administrator (AIX, PowerHA, PowerVM) → Enterprise Storage & Backup (Dell EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HP, NetApp) → Cloud Engineer extending enterprise platforms to Azure with hybrid backup, DR and infrastructure-as-code.
Early career
Native Android development in Java (Google Play releases), network engineering and digital-transformation project evaluation — the foundations of a full-stack perspective.
What I work with
Generative & Agentic AI
Production AI applications grounded in enterprise data.
Azure Cloud Architecture
Landing zones, governance and cost-optimized reference designs.
Data & Analytics
Raw data to trusted insight — in hours, not months.
Security & AI Governance
Zero-trust platforms and responsible AI by design.
Resilience & Data Protection
Tiered backup, replication and disaster recovery at enterprise scale.
DevOps, Automation & FinOps
Pipelines, policy-as-code and continuous cost optimization.
Certifications
Selected work
AI Landing Zone
A secure foundation for responsible AI adoption at enterprise scale: subscription topology, private networking, identity & RBAC, policy guardrails, monitoring and secure deployment standards — so every AI workload starts compliant.
RAG Knowledge Assistants
Conversational AI and knowledge assistants grounded in trusted enterprise content — combining Azure OpenAI, AI Search and secure API layers, with automated evaluation, groundedness validation and jailbreak protection.
CostPilot
Describe a workload in plain language, get a costed Azure architecture you can defend. An LLM plans the design; every price is deterministic — grounded on local snapshots of the Azure Retail Prices API, validated by per-service charge models and pricing invariants, and traceable down to the exact meter behind each number.
Agentic AI Lab
A personal "AI software factory": multi-agent orchestration where specialized AI agents cover the full product lifecycle — design, code, review, docs — with human approval gates, cost tracking and a live dashboard.
Also on GitHub
Selected writing
Education
Publication
Let's build what's next
Ready to accelerate your cloud and AI journey — or to co-create the next wave of AI-powered solutions? I'd love to hear from you.