Christos Trochalakis
Debian Developer
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolChristos Trochalakis is a seasoned web engineer and Debian developer with 18 years of experience building high-performance web platforms, databases, and infrastructure. He progressed from full-stack engineering to senior leadership roles at Skroutz S.A., culminating as CTO, where he led architecture, product engineering, and platform optimizations. Technically fluent in Ruby on Rails, Django, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis, he focuses on web performance, tooling, and reproducible infrastructure while advocating for Git-driven workflows. An active open-source contributor, he extended Confluent's Kafka Python client with consumer offset management and robust tests, showing attention to interoperability with librdkafka. Based in Athens, he combines pragmatic engineering with a strong Debian/FOSS ethos and a track record of turning performance constraints into scalable solutions.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.)Diploma Computer Engineering, Diploma Computer Engineering at University of Patras
Github Skills (7)
kafka10
api10
librdkafka10
python10
apidoc10
pytest9
testing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Confluent's Kafka Python Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christos primarily contributed to the `confluent-kafka-python` client by implementing and refining the `store_offsets()` API for the consumer. Their work included adding the API, writing tests for the new functionality, and addressing subsequent bug fixes and code improvements. These commits demonstrate a focus on the consumer's functionality and its interaction with the underlying librdkafka library. The user also addressed minor typo fixes, improving code readability.
pythonkafka-pythonconfluent-cloudpython-clientkafka-protocol
skroutz/resque
Jul 2012 - Feb 2021
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
Contributions:6 reviews, 62 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 8 months
redisresquerailsqueuesbackground-jobs
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