Demetris Bakas

GOLD Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

GOLD since 2021, Active Member, Deputy Country Leader for Cyprus, Coordinator for South Greece Universities and Event Coordinator for Greece since 2020

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors (previously named: Microsoft Student Partners) are student technology leaders, empowered to build Microsoft communities on their campus and share their deep knowledge and passion for technology with their fellow classmates. Was Digital Material Coordinator for one year (2019-2020). Currently the Community Manager for the University of Patras since 2019 as well as Coordinator for South Greece Universities and Event Coordinator for Greece since 2020. You can find the latest certificate here.

StudentGuru Patras

Member, Community Manager since 2019

StudentGuru is an on-line as well as an offline community with many members, supported by Microsoft. Apart from the forums and the on-line discussions offline members attend or even create events based on new computer technologies spanning from software development to Internet of things. More than 20 presentations performed to this day and participation in various workshops, in relation to C#, Unity, Azure cloud services, Linux, OpenGL and many more. It was renamed to Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Patras in 2020.

Global Azure 2021

AzureHeads

Over 3 days, communities around the world are organizing localized live streams for everyone around the world to join and learn about Azure from the best-in-class community leaders.
I was both a volunteer and a presenter at the event. I presented about proactive messages in Azure Bot Service and helped with the organization and smooth execution of the event.

IT PRO | DEV Connections 2020

Multiple Greek technical communities

A 2-day long event with over 100 technical presentations about technology.
Apart from being a speaker in the event, with a presentations covering Azure Bot Service, I was also part of the organizing team behind the event.

Summer In Greece Festival

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors

A 5-day long festival with over 30 technical presentations about technology.
Apart from being a speaker in the event, with a presentations covering Bot Framework and LUIS Services, I was also part of the organizing team behind the event. You can find more information about the festival here.

Hour of code

Microsoft

Presentation in junior high school as a Microsoft Student Partner.

Night of the Living Devs

Microsoft, 24hr hackathon

Part of a four member team, 9th prize winners (UWP).

Microsoft Imagine Cup

National Finals

With a five member team called Greencore Studios, submitted a tower defense game called Green Alert.

Military Service

Cyprus

I have completed my military service of 6 months in Cyprus as an artillery signalman.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Microsoft

Earning the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification validates the skills and knowledge required to build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. Candidates understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals demonstrate a functional understanding of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earning the Microsoft 365 Fundamentals certification demonstrates an understanding of the options available in Microsoft 365 and the benefits of adopting cloud services, the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, and implementing Microsoft 365 cloud service.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the Azure AI Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the Power Platform Fundamentals certification are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences.
You can find the certificate here.

MTA: Security Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the MTA: Security Fundamentals certification have demonstrated fundamental security knowledge and skills.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the Azure Data Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they are implemented using Microsoft Azure data services.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals certification demonstrate a functional understanding of Dynamics 365 capabilities and Microsoft cloud computing.
You can find the certificate here.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Earners of the Azure Fundamentals certification have demonstrated foundational level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure.
You can find the certificate here.

Quality Software Developer Foundation Certificate in Maintainability

Software Improvement Group

Building Maintainable Software using C#. In accordance with SIG standards for building maintainable software. (Beta exam)
You can find the certification here.

ECDL

European Computer Driving Licence

ECDL / ICDL certification is a globally recognised information and communication technology (ICT) and digital literacy qualification.

Personal Blog

Creation of personal blog called binarygrounds.com

This blog is dedicated to creating content on things I am working with and enjoy, on various programming related topics! You can find it here.

Getting started with Bot Framework - Introduction to luis Cognitive Services

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors CEE YouTube channel

This educational video demonstrates how to create a simple bot in Azure and get it ready to go. Following this video allows you to dive into Cognitive Services and use machine learning to teach your bot human interaction through understanding natural language. Train your bot to extract the exact information you need to process by guessing the user’s intents and finding the entities in the sentence. The video can be found here.

Platform Rush

Unity2D

An infinite platformer game, created using Unity2D and C#. Since the development of the project stopped the app was removed from the Google Play and Microsoft Store. The code and releases of the project can be found here.

Greek

Native

English

Professional

International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) from the University of Cambridge.
You can find the certificate here.