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, helping teams perform well and building systems that understand human behavior.

My MSc in Statistics & Data Science grounds my approach in evidence, whether that’s analysing support patterns, coaching distributed teams, or thinking about AI systems that serve real people.

Now

Team Lead, Woo Happiness

Automattic · 2026 – Present

  • 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

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

Product & Support

WooCommerce ecosystem
Payments & ecommerce
Customer success
Quality assurance
WordPress / hosting

Background

Happiness Engineer · Automattic

2021 – Present · Senior technical support, PHP contributions, AI solutions

Happiness Data Ally · Automattic

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

Support Engineer · SomewhereWarm

2020 – 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 – 2026 · CNN pruning thesis, RSS-accredited

MEng Electrical & Computer Engineering · NTUA

2015 – 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.

Get in touch

Location

Athens, Greece