Education

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

• MSci in Software Engineering with Honours of the First Class
• Dates Attended: September 2015 - June 2020
• Master’s Project: Developed a Reinforcement Learning based scheduler for IoT networks, outperforming current heuristic solutions.

Professional Experience

Major Financial Technology Firm, London, UK

• Role: Platform Engineer
• Dates: September 2022 - Present
• Responsibilities and Achievements:
  • Designed, maintained, and expanded Cloud Components.
  • Managed internal infrastructure, including Prometheus monitoring, Grafana dashboards, and various databases.
  • Owned and managed multiple services, mentoring junior team members.
  • Developed client-specific features, including a Security Monitoring solution for package vulnerabilities.

Ondat (Previously StorageOS), London, UK

• Role: Product Reliability Engineer
• Dates: July 2020 - September 2022
• Responsibilities and Achievements:
  • Mentored new team members and contributed to new feature designs.
  • Overhauled testing infrastructure, reducing provisioning time and improving development productivity.
  • Managed CI/CD infrastructure and troubleshooting client issues.

Skyscanner, Glasgow, UK

• Role: Software Engineer
• Dates: June 2018 - June 2020
• Responsibilities and Achievements:
  • Managed Kubernetes clusters and reduced infrastructure costs by 60-70%.
  • Developed a platform for classifying operational metric regressions using machine learning techniques.

Netlab, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

• Role: Research Intern
• Dates: June 2017 - September 2017
• Project: Contributed to an open-source Network Function Virtualization Framework.

Google Summer of Code, Glasgow, UK

• Role: Gentoo Developer
• Dates: May 2016 - September 2016
• Project: Developed a Meta-Manifest verification system for Gentoo’s Portage package manager.

Technical Skills

• Languages: Python, Golang, Java, C, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Haskell, Javascript, HTML/CSS
• Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, ClusterAPI, Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Flux, Helm, Jenkins, Rancher, Drone, Git, Numpy, Tensorflow, Keras

Personal Skills

• Automation: Continuously seeks to automate tasks and streamline processes.
• Presentation: Regular webinar presenter and company-wide communicator at Ondat.
• Interviewing: Successfully interviewed and hired key team members.
• Mentorship: Actively involved in onboarding and mentoring new hires.
• Initiative and Adaptability: Demonstrates strong initiative and adaptability in fast-paced environments.

Achievements

• 1st Place: IBM challenge at Glasgow University Hackathon 2019.
• 1st Place: Goldman Sachs challenge at Glasgow University Hackathon 2018.
• 1st Place: Amazon challenge at Glasgow University Hackathon 2017.
• Silver Medal: National Mathematical Olympiad, Hellenic Mathematical Society.