Stavros Foteinopoulos
Principal Platform Engineer
Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
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Top SchoolStavros Foteinopoulos is a Principal Platform Engineer with 10 years of SRE and cloud-native engineering experience, currently at Blueground and based in Ioannina, Greece. He focuses on practical, security-first platform solutions with deep experience in data sovereignty, CI/CD modernization, FinOps/GreenOps, and FIPS/Chainguard-driven compliance. At Mattermost and PeoplePerHour he led efforts to modernize build pipelines, introduce SLIs/SLOs and Game/Disaster Days, prototype Kubernetes (EKS) migrations and drive infrastructure cost-optimization during the COVID-19 downturn. He’s highly hands-on with automation and tooling—building custom serverless deployment pipelines, kubectl automation, logging-cluster redesigns, and robust monitoring and backup systems. Holding an MSc in Information Systems Security and a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he blends rigorous security expertise with practical, auditable platform engineering.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Information Systems Security, Master of Science (MSc) Information Systems Security at Democritus University of Thrace
English, German, Greek
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
operator10
mesos10
prometheus10
deployment-automation10
kubernetes-monitoring10
notification-service10
terraform-provider10
controller10
terraform10
ingress-nginx10
collaboration10
mattermost10
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost-pgbouncer-config-reload
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
stafot/grafana-helm-charts
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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