Yannis Karamanlakis
Yannis Karamanlakis is co-founder and CTO of Edra. Sequoia says he became Palantir’s first Forward Deployed AI Engineer and led work focused on moving LLMs from demos into production at scale.
Why He Matters
Karamanlakis gives Edra technical credibility around production agent deployment. Investor sources emphasize his role in bridging AI research with real-world enterprise operations and in creating Palantir’s Forward Deployed AI Engineering function with Eugen Alpeza.