George Violaris
CTO - AI Systems & Software Engineering
Nicosia, Cyprus
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Summary
CTO with 15 years in software engineering. I run technology at Hatchworks VC, where I build AI products — Zeig.ai for financial analysis and Spectre.ai for agent memory. Before that, blockchain and DeFi, gaming platforms, insurance systems and server infrastructure.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer Hatchworks VC, 2021 – Present
- Building Zeig.ai — financial analysis through conversation. Multiple LLMs plus vision AI for reading charts and pulling market signals.
- Building Spectre.ai — a memory layer for AI agents. Persistent cross-session recall and shared knowledge pools. Plugins for Claude Code and OpenCode ship today; more coming.
- Moved from a reinforcement learning trading agent (PPO) to LLM tool-calling when it became clear that got us to product faster. RL work parked for later.
- Technical direction and mentorship across portfolio companies.
Technical Advisor Phoenix (DeFi liquidity provider), 2022 – Present
- Advising on blockchain architecture, smart contracts, and protocol design.
Technical Lead SkillGaming, 2019 – 2021
- Full-stack development of a skill-gaming platform. React, Redux, Laravel, Web3.js, Ethers.js.
Senior Software Engineer Trust Insurance Cyprus, October 2014 – August 2019
- Broker portals and core insurance systems — quotation, policy management, claims. PHP, Java, MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL.
Earlier
Software and Systems Engineer — SMK IdealHost Ltd, Feb 2012 – Oct 2014 - Frontend and backend for server/datacenter management. Java, JavaScript, bash, C++.
Freelance PHP Developer — Self-employed, Jan 2008 – Dec 2009 - Custom websites and intranets.
Alarm & CCTV Engineer — SAPELE Security Systems Ltd, Feb 2007 – Nov 2007 - Installation and configuration for commercial and residential clients.
Writing
- “What We Learned Building Agent Memory at Scale” (2025)
- “The Model That Never Made a Trade” (Feb 2026)
- “Software Is Not Dead — It’s Evolving” (Feb 2026)
Peer-reviewed
- Violaris C.G., Mavromoustakis X.C. “On the Performance Evaluation and Analysis of the Hybridised Bittorrent Protocol with Partial Mobility Characteristics”, AP2PS 2010.
- Charalambous M. et al. “On the Mobility Scenario Implementation Using a Graphical P2P Discrete Event Simulator for the Bittorrent Protocol”, J. Algorithms and Computational Technology, 2013.
- Violaris G., Dionysiou I. “Out-of-Band Authentication Model with Hashcash Brute-Force Prevention”, IEEE CSS 2014.
Education
MSc Computer Network Security – Middlesex University London (Upper Second Class Honours)
BSc Computer Science – University of Nicosia
Skills
AI: LLMs, tool-calling, agent orchestration, persistent memory, RL (PPO, Gymnasium), vector databases (Qdrant), RAG
Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, Java
Frontend/Frameworks: React, Next.js, Vue.js, Laravel, Redux, Web3.js, Ethers.js
Databases & Infra: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Qdrant
Other: Blockchain/DeFi, Git, Neovim, system architecture