Dimitris Bachtis
Tech Lead - Site Reliability Engineer at Redpanda Data
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolDimitris Bachtis is a Tech Lead and Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust, secure infrastructure and automation for high-throughput systems. Currently leading SRE efforts at Redpanda Data, he combines deep platform engineering background from roles at Skroutz and Nokia with a formal MSc in Digital Systems Security. Dimitris has hands-on expertise improving CI/CD, test automation and build tooling—evidenced by contributions to the high-performance Redpanda streaming project—while maintaining a strong security focus dating back to a Mozilla contract where he built a TLS compliance framework. Known for pragmatic reliability work that bridges development and ops, he brings both low-level C++ and modern cloud-native experience to hard production problems. Based in Greece, he often surfaces subtle quality and debugging improvements that reduce operational friction before they become outages.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Information Systems at University of Piraeus, Department of InformaticsMaster of Science (MS), Digital Systems Security, Master of Science (MS), Digital Systems Security at University of Piraeus, Department of Digital Systems
English, German
Github Skills (11)
python10
testing10
cicd9
kafka9
bash9
go9
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
docker7
container7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:167 reviews, 31 commits, 19 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dimitris primarily contributed to improving the testing and build infrastructure of the Redpanda project. They addressed various issues in test scripts, including fixing Python 3 compatibility problems and warnings related to buffering. Additionally, the user formatted and updated build scripts to improve code quality. Their contributions also included the addition of formatting dependencies and adjustments to error logging for improved debugging.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
0xdiba/redpanda
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Redpanda is the real-time engine for modern apps.
Contributions:15 releases, 3 PRs, 132 pushes in 7 months
redpandacross-platformreal-time
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