Alexandros Solanos
DevOps Engineer at Uizard Technologies
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandros Solanos is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently enabling AI-driven product design at Uizard. He began with Linux and Bash as a teenager, progressed to C/C++ and PHP, and led the transition of TourPanda to Kubernetes, cutting operational costs by over 40% while implementing IaC and complex CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable across Node.js, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and React, he combines backend API design with practical DevOps automation and lived experience as a team lead and Scrum Master. A pragmatic engineer who favors simplicity ("If it ain't simple I don't want it"), he also contributes to open-source—improving CakePHP utilities with locale-aware sorting—reflecting a habit of solving real-world interoperability problems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Patras
Greek, English
Github Skills (9)
php10
cakephp10
testing10
mvc9
unit-testing9
orm8
web-framework8
validations7
validation7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/cakephp
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP - Official Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Alexandros primarily contributed to the CakePHP framework's utility classes. Their work focused on adding and testing a locale option for sorting in the `Hash` utility class. This involved modifying the `Hash.php` file to include the new functionality, creating a test case in `HashTest.php` to validate the `locale` sorting, and fixing indentation issues. They also contributed to merging upstream changes.
php-frameworkormform-buildervalidationpsr-7
hytromo/hytromo.github.io
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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