Alexandros Ioannides is a Head of DevOps with nine years’ experience blending site reliability, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices to drive uptime and automation across SaaS portfolios including UptimeRobot and Mangools. He combines hands-on contributions to popular control panel projects like Hestia and Vesta—improving installation, security, and PHP compatibility—with strategic leadership as Head of DevOps at itrinity and long-standing CTO responsibilities at FocusNet Group. A proactive problem solver with a “automate everything” mentality, he focuses on repeatable, auditable operations and resilient deployments. His background in quantitative finance and business administration adds analytical rigor and commercial awareness to technical decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc) Quantitative Finance and Financial Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Quantitative Finance and Financial Engineering at Alliance Manchester Business School
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration at University of Patras
Hestia Control Panel | A lightweight and powerful control panel for the modern web.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:8 reviews, 411 commits, 226 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexandros contributed to the Hestia Control Panel project by making various changes to installation scripts, configuration files, and core system files. Their work included updates to installation processes for Ubuntu, modifications to backup and compression settings, and fixes to various PHP compatibility issues. The user also made changes to security settings, including those related to the SSH daemon, and roundcube configuration and enabled new features.
Contributions:57 commits, 102 PRs, 84 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexandros primarily focused on maintaining and improving the VESTA Control Panel installation scripts. They made several updates to the installation scripts for Ubuntu, addressing issues such as package excludes, NTP synchronization, and nologin configuration. The user's contributions also included adjusting PHP-FPM and Roundcube configurations, along with some minor typo corrections and general code cleanup. These changes suggest a strong focus on system administration and ensuring the control panel's smooth operation.
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Alexandros Ioannides - Head Of DevOps at FocusNet Group