Aris Fkiaras
DevOps Engineer at Switch
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAris Fkiaras is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating reliable infrastructure across research and financial institutions, currently based in Switzerland. He progressed through multiple roles at CERN before driving platform reliability at UBS and now at Switch, blending systems engineering, security awareness, and software engineering practices. His contributions to the open-source Rucio scientific data management project demonstrate practical backend skills—adding schema fixes, improving dataset deletion semantics, and making importers configurable to increase flexibility. Known for working well under pressure and delivering pragmatic solutions, he combines academic computer science grounding with hands-on experience in large-scale, data-intensive environments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business
Github Skills (9)
distributed-systems10
sql10
python10
data-management10
database9
databases9
postgresql8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rucio/rucio
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 11 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aris contributed to the Rucio data management system by implementing and modifying backend features. Their work included adding missing columns to the `did_meta` table and fixing dataset deletion functionalities to ensure the removal of associated metadata. They also improved the RSE (Rucio Storage Element) functionality by allowing RSEs to be restored. Furthermore, the user updated the importer making it configurable, enhancing the system's flexibility.
heterogeneous-systemsdata-managementsciencescientific-data-managementdistributed-systems
arisfkiaras/rucio
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Rucio - Scientific Data Management
Contributions:74 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
data-managementdata-sciencescientific-data-managementscientificscientific-data
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