Alex Ouzounis
Vice President, Platform Engineering
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Ouzounis is a Senior Director of Platform Engineering with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and autonomous, high-performance engineering teams across startups and large Nasdaq-listed companies. He blends hands-on engineering—having written data processing software for ESA’s Gaia mission and led CI/CD and PaaS efforts—with strategic platform architecture and developer-experience initiatives. Alex has driven platform vision and long-term planning at SolarWinds and now leads platform and data engineering at DNSFilter while running Ouzi to help data-driven companies turn datapoints into actionable insight. His background spans software engineering, distributed scientific computing, and business administration, supported by multiple industry certifications. He is passionate about organizational design, event-driven architectures, contract-based testing, and feature-flag-driven releases to accelerate safe, frequent delivery. Based in Edinburgh, he brings a rare mix of scientific-data pedigree and pragmatic cloud-native delivery experience that helps teams move from proof-of-concept to sustained, measurable flow.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Distributed Scientific Computing, Master of Science Distributed Scientific Computing at The University of EdinburghHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusInternational Baccalaureate English, International Baccalaureate English at Hellenic American Educational Foundation, Athens CollegeCCNA Certification Computer Networks, CCNA Certification Computer Networks at Cisco Network Academy - Hellenic American UnionBachelor of Science Business Administration Major in Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Business Administration Major in Computer Information Systems at Deree College
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Github Skills (97)
controller10
credstash10
daemonset10
kubernetes10
go10
docker-image10
continuous-testing9
specification9
serverless9
fluentd9
docker9
aws9
gocd9
papertrail8
kubernetes-operator8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ouzi-dev/prow-helm-chart
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Helm chart to get Prow and everything needed up and running on a cluster
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 46 commits in 1 year 2 months
helmprow-componentsprowkubernetestest-infra
ouzi-dev/credstash-operator
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
A Kubernetes Controller for using Credstash Secrets in Kubernetes
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
credstashkuberneteskubernetes-controllersecret-managementsecret
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