Babis Kiosidis
Co-Founder at Spotify
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolBabis Kiosidis is a platform and data infrastructure engineer with 11+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently contracting at Spotify while co-founding Kube Talent to speed hiring for hard-to-fill backend, data, and infrastructure roles across Europe. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes fleet management, custom Operators, CI/CD, DataOps/MLOps, and cloud-native tooling, and has driven platform work used daily by thousands of engineers. Comfortable across Go, Python, Java, Scala and TypeScript, he combines low-level systems thinking with developer-facing UX like CLIs, Backstage plugins and paved paths. Based in Thessaloniki, he pairs entrepreneurial energy with production-proven platform craft, and has a track record of turning complex infrastructure challenges into scalable, team-friendly solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Communication and Information Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Communication and Information Systems at TEI of Central MacedoniaBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Introduction To Computer Science Building A Search Engine, Computer Science, Introduction To Computer Science Building A Search Engine, Computer Science at UdacityArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Ai-class
Greek, English
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Github Skills (142)
python10
hadoop10
scheduling10
eclipse10
spotify10
dependency-resolution10
client-library10
kubernetes-operator10
leiningen10
batch10
luigi10
java10
workflow-management10
visualization10
orchestration-framework10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ckiosidis/flyteadmin
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Control Plane for Flyte. Flyteadmin is a gRPC + REST Service written in golang and uses a RDBMs to store meta information and management information for Flyte Tasks and Workflows.
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year
golangflyteinformation-managementrdbmsflyte-tasks
ckiosidis/flytepropeller
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
FlytePropeller is a Kubernetes native operator, that executes Flyte Workflows and Tasks. It has its own kubectl-flyte CLI to interact and is extensible using the flyteplugins/pluginmachinery interface
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 8 months
golangflyteflyte-clikubectlinteract
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