Giorgos Papaefthymiou
Engineering Team Lead Developer Platform Expert Service Catalog SME
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolGiorgos Papaefthymiou is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience specializing in developer platforms, SRE, and DevOps, currently driving Developer Experience at Celonis. He led a team to adopt Backstage as the company’s Internal Development Platform and evolved the Service Catalog into a reactive Single Source of Truth that now powers SDLC workflows, policy enforcement, and integrations across the organization. Previously at Lenses.io and Centaur Analytics he built CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, cost-efficient dynamic staging environments, and robust monitoring stacks, consistently translating operational needs into developer-friendly tooling. A hands-on manager, he blends people development with technical stewardship—implementing OKRs, hiring, onboarding improvements, and skill-gap driven growth plans. Based in Athens, he pairs deep platform engineering experience with a practical knack for delivering reproducible, scalable environments that accelerate product teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Programming and Network-based Systems, Masters, Programming and Network-based Systems at University of PiraeusBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Technological Educational Institute of Athens
English, Greek, French
Stackoverflow
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rabbitmq
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Github Skills (111)
helm10
kafka10
docker10
lenses10
charts9
dataops9
rabbitmq9
sink9
dockerfile9
microservices9
infrastructure9
rethinkdb9
kafka-connector9
kubernetes9
dx8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
georgeyord/kubernetes-playground
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 31 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 7 months
georgeyord/dockerfiles
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:124 commits, 137 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
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