Join our live webinar to explore the upcoming Tom Sawyer Perspectives 13.6 release. Austris Krastins, Senior Technical Design Director, and Thanos Giannakis, Senior Product Development Engineer, will showcase new features including annotations for capturing context directly in graphs, new Neptune Analytics integrator that simplifies access to graph data in AWS environments, and more.
Discover how these updates expand data integration options and make working with complex graph data more efficient and intuitive.
Tom Sawyer Perspectives powerful new annotation framework enables users to add rich, contextual notes directly to nodes and edges in graphs.
About the hosts
Austris Krastins leads the design of Tom Sawyer Software products. He works closely with Design Architects and Graphic Designers to ensure coherent user experience, extensible software components, and fast performing algorithms. He also helps the company to define streamlined engineering processes, standards, and best practices, working closely with operations.
Austris joined Tom Sawyer Software as a Software Engineer in 2005. He was one of the early developers of the company’s flagship product, Tom Sawyer Perspectives, and he continues to be closely involved in its design and development. Soon after joining the company, Austris also helped to establish a branch office in Riga, Latvia and has continued to manage its operations and staff.
Austris holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Latvia. His Bachelor’s thesis was related to Hierarchical Layout and was one of the four that received an award from the University’s Computer Science faculty in 2005.
Thanos Giannakis joined Tom Sawyer Software in 2018 as a Software Engineer working on data integration using graph and relational databases. Since 2020, he leads technical teams to orchestrate the development of robust software systems that leverage the power of graph databases to extract insights from complex data structures. Thanos brings over 9 years of expertise in software development, graph database integrations, and graph-based solutions.
Prior to joining Tom Sawyer Software, Thanos served as a Software Engineer and Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science in Crete. There he specialized in the design and development of web and Java applications for high-speed data acquisition and integration. His work extensively covered areas such as graph database technologies, information retrieval, Semantic Web, and knowledge representation, with a particular focus on exploratory search and Linked Data. In addition to his research and development roles, Thanos was also a teaching assistant in Java at the University of Computer Science Department in Crete.
Thanos holds a Master of Software Engineering degree from the University of Computer Science Department in Crete.