Costas Papastathis
Software Engineer at IBM
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolCostas Papastathis is a software engineer based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and JavaScript ecosystems. He has driven buildpack innovation and Kubernetes integrations at Red Hat—maintaining Node.js Paketo Buildpacks and creating a Go "extension" buildpack type—work that blends low-level container tooling with developer experience. Now at IBM, he continues to focus on robust, production-grade tooling while bringing practical expertise in Podman/docker migrations, service binding in Kubernetes, and Node.js runtime patterns. His background includes research engineering and revenue-management platforms, and an unusual side skillset: classical violin training, which reflects a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Classical Violin, Bachelor's degree, Classical Violin at Erateio ConservatoryMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Peloponnese
Github Skills (142)
video-conferencing10
run-script10
rhel10
collaborative-editing10
fallback10
overhead10
dockerfile10
pdf-generation10
hystrix-dashboard10
collaboration10
fastify10
javascript10
fail-fast10
pino10
document-management10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pacostas/npm-install
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
A Cloud Native Buildpack for npm
Contributions:19 releases, 3 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pacostas/camping-list
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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