Fotis Tsamis
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Skroutz
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolFotis Tsamis is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux-first systems, blending early hobbyist roots with professional systems engineering since 2011. He has led operations for the European Copernicus data hub, maintaining global satellite-data services at >99.9% availability, and now drives SRE excellence at Skroutz. His day-to-day mixes configuration management (Ansible, Terraform), CI/CD and Kubernetes automation with a pragmatic focus on elegant API design, monitoring and task automation. An active tester and QA contributor to scientific open-source projects like TARDIS-SN, he brings a detail-oriented approach to reliability and configuration parsing that avoids brittle deployments. Based in Greece, Fotis pairs deep operational experience with a long-standing commitment to open source and education-focused tooling.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Information Technology at Harokopio 
English, Greek
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
radiation8
rad8
supernova7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tardis-sn/tardis
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
TARDIS - Temperature And Radiative Diffusion In Supernovae
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:194 commits, 55 PRs, 5 branches in 10 months
Contributions summary:Fotis primarily contributed to the testing of the TARDIS repository by writing and modifying test cases. These changes included creating new tests to verify fixes for existing issues and modifying existing tests to avoid test failures. The tests focus on the config reader module, demonstrating a strong focus on ensuring the reliability and functionality of the project's configuration management capabilities. Several commits specifically addressed issues related to file path handling and configuration parsing within the testing framework.
pythonscienceastrophysicssupernovasupernovae
ftsamis/tardis
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
TARDIS - Temperature And Radiative Diffusion In Supernovae
Contributions:1 PR, 253 pushes, 79 branches in 10 months
diffusiontardissupernovaetemperature
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