Alex Kiousis
Principal System Engineer at GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kiousis is a Principal System Engineer with 12 years of experience leading infrastructure and operations for research and education networks in Greece. At GRNET he manages an 8-person team, oversees large-scale IaaS clouds (including ~500 Ganeti hypervisors and multiple 20-node Ceph clusters), and runs critical public services and tooling across datacenter, storage, and monitoring stacks. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Linux, Debian, Puppet, CI, and Python-based automation, and has a track record of building and maintaining resilient, open-source driven platforms. Earlier, he led student-run CS labs at the University of Piraeus, gaining early experience with domain services, virtualization, and OSS operations. Known for combining operational rigor with pragmatic tooling development, he focuses on lifecycle management and scalable service delivery. Based in Greece, he blends academic grounding in computer science with long-term, production-scale systems stewardship.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Computer Science, Undergraduate, Computer Science at University of Piraeus
Github Skills (63)
vps10
ddos10
django10
yamllint10
nagios9
lint9
yaml9
linter9
xen9
icinga8
netconf8
shinken8
perl8
ncurses8
tui8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grnet/flowspy
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
GRNET Firewall on Demand platform. Powers
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
firewalldjangonetconfddosnetdev
alexkiousis/yamllint
May 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
linteryaml-filesyaml
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