Summary
Athanasios Zografos is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native and edge computing platforms from Greece. Currently Head of Engineering Europe at Zededa, he drives development of Zero Trust orchestration and champions the open-source EVE-OS within LF Edge’s Technical Steering Committee. Previously a VP of Engineering at Sunlight.io, he has a track record of founding global teams, turning POCs into production-grade HCI products, and establishing company-wide OKRs and DevOps practices. His career began in systems and infrastructure roles where he architected large virtualized fleets and automated deployments with Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. Known for blending hands-on DevOps expertise with strategic product and organizational leadership, he also advises cloud meta-provider FusionHarbor.io on multi-cloud optimization. Based in Heraklion, he combines deep technical chops with a strong commitment to open standards and community-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software Eng & Mathematics, BSc Software Eng & Mathematics at The Open University
Beng Control & Computer Eng, Beng Control & Computer Eng at University of Westminster
English, French