Alex Chalkias
Senior Product Manager at Elastic
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolAlex Chalkias is a Senior Product Manager at Elastic with six years of product and engineering experience across cloud, telco and open-source ecosystems. He leads Ingress and IAM product areas on Elastic Cloud’s Control Plane, bringing a hands-on background from roles at Canonical, Nokia and Amadeus where he drove Kubernetes portfolio growth and large integration projects. Alex combines software engineering roots with product strategy—having shipped storage and Kubernetes products, managed roadmaps, and increased MicroK8s adoption by 90% year-over-year. Based in Nice, he pairs technical rigor (Master’s in EECS) with practical delivery skills from early DevOps and systems roles that reduced costs and streamlined product ramp-downs. He co-founded a gamification community and has run cross-functional initiatives and large trainings, reflecting a knack for building engaged technical communities. Known for translating complex telecom and cloud requirements into pragmatic product outcomes, he thrives where developer experience, cloud infra and open-source intersect.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Certificate, Project Management, Master Certificate, Project Management at 12PM ConsultingMaster’s Degree, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 6.73 (ECTS B), Master’s Degree, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 6.73 (ECTS B) at University of PatrasHigh School, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science at Erasmios Greek - German School
French, English, German, Greek, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
ubuntu9
snap9
k8s8
charmed-kubernetes8
microk8s8
cicd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alxchalkias/kubernetes-docs
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
This repository contains the development version of docs for Charmed Kubernetes
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
k8skubernetescharmed-kubernetes
elastic/docs-content
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Elastic Documentation Content
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 comments in 9 months
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