Alexandros Sapranidis
Tech Lead - Principal Site Reliability Engineer I at Elastic
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolAlexandros Sapranidis is a Tech Lead and Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling cloud infrastructure, currently leading SRE efforts at Elastic from Athens. He blends deep software engineering roots—with early exposure to QBasic and Pascal—with hands-on expertise in CI/CD automation, Docker, Terraform and performance tuning for large Elasticsearch-powered systems. At Elastic he has driven cross-team strategic work to improve resource usage, predictability and fleet-wide stability while mentoring engineers and shaping roadmaps. His open-source contributions to the widely used elastic/beats project focus on making CI/CD pipelines more reliable and maintainable, reflecting a pragmatic automation-first mindset. Colleagues know him for clear communication, translating complex implementations into usable documentation, and an appetite for learning new technologies. Outside work he values knowledge exchange and brings a collaborative, people-first approach to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Electrical engineer, Computer Science, Electrical engineer at Elliniko Anoikto Panepistimio
English, Greek
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Github Skills (16)
automation10
buildkit10
automations10
buildkite10
ci-cd-pipeline10
dockers9
bash9
docker9
yaml7
filebeat6
testing6
terraform5
go5
terraformer5
nxlog5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/beats
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:240 reviews, 139 PRs, 142 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandros primarily contributed to improving the CI/CD pipeline and automating build and release processes. Their work involved modifying Buildkite scripts, adding and adjusting test configurations, and addressing build issues related to packaging and permissions. The commits showcase a focus on improving the efficiency and reliability of the continuous integration and deployment workflows for the `elastic/beats` repository. Further contributions included fixes for dynamic pipeline uploads and general script cleanup, indicating a focus on pipeline maintainability.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
alexsapran/fleet-server
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:13 PRs, 40 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 6 months
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