Efstathios Iosifidis
Lead Infrastructure Automation Architect
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolEfstathios Iosifidis is a Lead Infrastructure Automation Architect with 14 years of experience designing resilient, highly available cloud platforms and automating infrastructure using IaC, Ansible, Docker and CI/CD. He blends backend development (Python, Java/Spring) and systems administration to translate complex business requirements into scalable production services, having driven 99% uptime and launched over ten new organizational services. An unconventional path from a DVM to cloud engineering gave him a rigorous, systematic problem-solving mindset that informs his architecture and documentation practices—he has increased institutional knowledge bases by over 120%. A long-time open-source advocate and community builder, he contributes to projects like Nextcloud, Ubuntu, openSUSE and GNOME and leads GDG Cloud Thessaloniki and award-winning community initiatives. He also runs a technical blog with over a million lifetime views and regularly represents FOSS projects at conferences, combining technical depth with public-facing advocacy.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Graduate Junior software developer, Graduate Junior software developer at 6th Evening Vocational High SchoolMaster's degree Software Development and Cloud, Master's degree Software Development and Cloud at University of MacedoniaDoctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) Veterinary Medicine, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) Veterinary Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Bachelor's degree Animal Management Dairy Products Technitian School of Agriculture, Bachelor's degree Animal Management Dairy Products Technitian School of Agriculture at Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
Greek, English, Spanish
Github Skills (81)
python10
django10
internationalization10
localization10
translation10
crowdsourcing10
java10
version-control10
gettext10
uml10
xfce10
sql9
gephi9
simulation9
gnome9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iosifidis/UoM-Applied-Informatics
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
My University Assignments etc
Contributions:282 commits, 366 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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iosifidis/EPAL
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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