Niko Maroulis

Niko Maroulis is the Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Hack The Box. He has over 15 years of experience in AI, data engineering, and security at leading tech companies, including Shopify, Spotify, and Splunk. As a Tech Lead at Shopify, he led the Data & Security team, specializing in scalable real-time streaming pipelines, batch data processing, and AI/ML models for fraud detection. Previously, as a Staff Data Engineer at Spotify, he designed high-throughput systems capable of handling millions of events for recommendations. He also served as the Founder and CTO of AgentRisk, where he developed automated trading systems for wealth management using AI.