Summary
Efstathios 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 School
Master's degree Software Development and Cloud, Master's degree Software Development and Cloud at University of Macedonia
Doctor 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