Michael Papadopoulos

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Partner

Chief Architect, Digital Problem Solving

Michael is a strong advocate of the DevOps culture and agile principles, with demonstrated experience applying both in challenging global environments. Coming from a development background, he remains highly technical, with hands-on involvement.

Areas of Focus

Education

University of Essex

B.Eng (1st Class) Computers & Networks

Past Experience

App-Art

Product architect

mSensis

Product architect

Michael is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based out of our London office, and serves as Chief Architect.

Michael is passionate about designing the right solutions using smart-stitching approaches, focusing on practicalities and realism over architectural purity. Michael is able to build and lead teams composed of software engineers, data scientists, designers, Q&As to deploy solutions solving apparently intractable problems with a focus on cloud-native applications.

Michael is responsible for creating new product offerings ranging from AI powered Technology Assessment across code & build quality, architecture, security and regulatory compliance to the SENSE Social Listening offering. Working with ADL colleagues and practices, these have been successfully deployed across the globe in a variety of industries including tightly regulated domains such as healthcare.

Michael has demonstrated experience in solving problems in challenging global environments. Coming from a development background, Michael remains highly technical, with hands-on involvement in code review, design, architecture, and operations.

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Michael is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based out of our London office, and serves as Chief Architect.