Summary
Christos Stathis is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and operating cloud-scalable web applications and microservice architectures. He has led platform tooling and CI/CD initiatives at Upwork, built and run production AWS services as a founder, and supervised Java development for digital banking products. Deep hands-on expertise spans Kubernetes, Istio, service mesh, ECS, DynamoDB and both Java and JavaScript ecosystems, with a practical focus on monitoring, testing and self-service developer tooling. His background blends research-level rigor (PhD-level work in network traffic control) with product delivery, which informs pragmatic solutions for complex distributed systems. Recently he’s been expanding into data science, bringing curiosity and cross-discipline thinking to infrastructure and platform problems. Based in Athens, he pairs long-term open-source involvement and enterprise experience to help teams ship reliable, observable platforms.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
19/20, 19/20 at 3rd Lyceum of Chalandri
PhD, Network traffic control, PhD, Network traffic control at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, Spanish