whoami

Hello world :-) I hold an MSc on Computer Science from the Vrije University of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam. Furthermore, I hold a BSc from Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Management Science and Technology with a major in Information Systems and e-Commerce). My major focuses are distributed systems and software development. I am passionate about cutting-edge technologies, writing scripts and experimenting with new technologies and/or frameworks. Building the legacy systems of the future, one function at a time.

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May 2023 - Present

Ansys, DevOps Engineer II

• Heavy development on Grafana Dashboards
• InfluxDB management
• Development of Exporters for telemetry data
• Custom script template creation for Icinga2 monitoring system
• Python/Bash scripting

December 2022 - Present

Experiencegift, DevOps Engineer

• Monitoring
• Logging
• Sys/Ops
• DNS management

June 2021 - December 2022

GRNET, Software/DevOps Engineer

• DevOps [ Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, DebOps management ]
• Configuration management [ Ansible ]
• Monitoring Stack [ Prometheus, Grafana, Exporters (Node, Varnish, Mysqld, Nginx, Apache, Redis, Blackbox) ]
• Automated Application Backup with de-duplication [ Borg, Borgmatic ]
• Log Management [ Graylog stack: ElasticSearch, Logstash, MongoDB, JVM ]
• Firewall Management [ ufw, ferm, iptables ]
• API gateway [ Krakend, Kong ]
• Experience with web servers [ NGINX reverse proxy, Apache2 ]
• Experience with build tools [ maven ]
• Database experience [ mySQL, postgres ]
• Distributed Systems [ Kubernetes, Helm pkg manager, Docker instrumentation, Docker Swarm, Vagrant ]
• Knowledge Base Infrastructure [ Docusaurus ]
• Load Testing [ Locust ]
• API testing [ JMeter, Postman, Swagger ]
• Application Testing [ Unit Testing, e2e Testing, jest.js, supertest ]

October 2016 - April 2018

Accenture, Software Engineer

• Worked for a major betting contractor in Greece
• Shell scripting
• Experience with systems programming [C, C++]
• Deep hands-on experience with *nix systems [AIX, CentOS]
• Engaged in the automation of building complex applications
• Unit & integration testing
• Debug & test implementations [IBM debugger of AIX]
• Created functional and technical documents [Requirement Analysis, Waterfall Architecture]
• Gained experience with project management tools [Jira, StashBlue]
• Familiriased with DevOps techniques

Janyary 2016 – Aug 2016

EmTech, Software Engineer Trainee

• Researched cloud technologies [AWS, Docker containers, Google Platform]
• Familiriased with business reports [feasibility, proof of concept, theoretical deployment]
• Familiriased with cloud computing
• Researched load balancing algorithms for distributed systems

March 2015 – November 2015

Greek Army, private

• Maintained the central IT system which was responsible for handling all the financial monitoring of the military gas station and supermarket
• Worked with C and shell scripts, creating financial reports for the entire military unit

Note: compulsory service to Greek Army

ls skills

• Intermediate: C, C++, Python, Java SE, SQL, shell scripting
• Beginner: Mongo DB, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js
• Tools/techniques: Git, DevOps, Jekyll, RESTful web apps, Jira, make, maven, PyCharm, IBM debugger

grep concepts

• Data Structures
• Multithreading & Multiprocessing
  • OpenMP
  • POSIX threads
  • CUDA programming
• Networks
• Information Visualization
  • Flask
  • Bokeh
  • D3
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
• Protocol Validation
• Test Driven Development

man man

• [September 2018 - June 2021] MSc in Computer Science @ VU & UvA, Netherlands
• [September 2010 - June 2016] BSc in Information Systems and e-Business @ DMST AUEB, Greece
• [September 2012 - December 2012] Erasmus student @ Vaasa University, Finland

touch project

• Developing a suggestion system for character builds in RPGs
• Data Analytics for card games (Slay the Spire)
• Blogging

ls hobbies

• Volunteer in teams (social kitchen) helping refugees and homeless people in Athens
• DIY projects using Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• A member of ELAK (free software of open code)
• Involvement in coding marathons - Technologies used: Python, C/C++, Git, Jenkins
• Avid gamer
• Chess newbie
• Book eater
• Folk music lover

sudoedit /etc/default/locale

• Greek (native)
• English (proficient)
• German (elementary)

apt-get moo

Don't be a stranger ;)