Antony Chazapis
Visiting Instructor at ICS-FORTH
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolAntony Chazapis is a research-driven software engineer and visiting instructor with 15 years of experience building distributed compute and storage platforms that span Cloud, Edge and HPC environments. Holding a PhD from NTUA, he blends academic rigor with industry practice—leading engineering teams and shipping a novel software-defined storage product before pivoting to European research projects at FORTH focused on HPC-Cloud convergence and RISC‑V-based accelerators. He teaches a ground-up graduate course on Cloud-native Software Architectures at the University of Crete and supervises student work on Kubernetes extensions, storage systems and MLOps. Antony’s hands-on expertise includes kernel drivers, Python/C bindings, containerized execution, fractional GPU allocation and reproducible HPC workflows, reflecting a full-stack systems orientation from firmware to orchestration. He coordinates and implements demonstrators for multiple EU projects (REBECCA, RISER, AERO, DEEP‑SEA, EVOLVE), often acting as PI or work-package lead, and is an active open-source creator and contributor. Based in Heraklion, he brings a rare combination of low-level systems craftsmanship and cloud-native architecture leadership aimed at next-generation European supercomputing and cloud infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Crete, Department of Computer ScienceDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English
Github Skills (96)
container-management10
coredns10
mlops10
cloud-native10
k8s10
letsencrypt10
charts10
digitalocean10
provisioning10
helm10
open-access10
localstorage10
kubernetes10
argo10
gitops10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CARV-ICS-FORTH/HPK
May 2023 - Nov 2025
HPK allows running Kubernetes applications within HPC by translating deployments to Slurm and Singularity/Apptainer
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 years 7 months
apptainerhpckubernetesslurm
CARV-ICS-FORTH/H3
Feb 2020 - May 2021
H3 is an embedded object store in C, Python, and Java
Contributions:82 commits, 3 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 3 months
javaobject-storepython
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