Ilia Dioleti

Happiness Engineering Lead at Automattic.
MSc Data Science & Statistics.

Athens, Greece · Automattic / Woo

About

I work at the intersection of people leadership and data-driven thinking, leading a distributed support team and shipping tools that turn customer signal into product decisions.

A MSc in Statistics & Data Science keeps my approach evidence-first: analysing support patterns, coaching the team, building agentic workflows to take repetitive work off the team’s plate. Years on the frontline of customer support shaped how I listen too: calmly under pressure, with empathy, and with an ear for the signal underneath what’s being asked. I bring that lens to every partner, customer, and team call, and to every business, product, and operations conversation.

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Now

Team Lead, Woo Happiness

Automattic · Since 2026

  • Leading a distributed WooCommerce support team, running 1:1s, goal-setting cycles, and team meetups
  • Building Looker dashboards and revenue analytics to inform support and growth decisions
  • Exploring AI-assisted workflows with Claude to make the team more effective at scale

Background

Happiness Engineer · Automattic

Since 2021 · Senior technical support, PHP contributions, AI solutions

Happiness Data Ally · Automattic

2024 to 2025 · Analytics, dashboards, data pipelines (SQL, Trino, Looker)

Support Engineer · SomewhereWarm

2020 to 2021 · Technical support, customizations, internal tooling

Research Intern · NCSR “Demokritos”

2019 · Neural network simulations, chimera states in complex dynamical systems

Education

MSc Statistics & Data Science · Hasselt University

2023 to 2026 · CNN pruning thesis, RSS-accredited

MEng Electrical & Computer Engineering · NTUA

2015 to 2021 · Brain atrophy simulation thesis with UPenn CBICA

Beyond work

When I’m not leading teams or training models, I’m drafting patterns and sewing my own clothes.

Skills & Focus Areas

Leadership

Team coaching & mentoring
Performance management
Goal-setting (SMART, OKR)
Async & distributed teams
Cross-functional collaboration

AI & Tooling

LLM applications & prompting
AI-assisted workflows
Claude Code / agentic tools
Process automation
Knowledge systems

Data Science

Statistical modelling
Machine learning
Data analysis & visualisation
Python · R · SQL
Experimental design

Customer-Facing

Empathetic written support
Active listening & de-escalation
Customer interviews
Voice-of-customer synthesis
WooCommerce · WordPress · hosting