Harris Tzovanakis
Business Engagement Manager at CERN
Geneva Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolHarris Tzovanakis is a senior engineering leader and Business Engagement Manager at CERN with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling web and data systems. He blends technical depth—as an Invenio contributor who improved search, UI, and deposit workflows—with strategic leadership, having led software engineering, architecture, and DevOps transformations (notably migrating services to Kubernetes). At CERN he coordinates multi-year roadmaps across IT and scientific sectors, mentors teams through structured feedback and hiring processes, and has driven productivity and deployment cadence improvements that enabled daily releases. His background spans founding a digital agency, tech leadership for prominent clients, and academic training in applied mathematics with an MBA from London Business School. Colleagues know him for aligning technical delivery to stakeholder needs while preserving developer autonomy and reuse across projects. An often-overlooked strength is his track record in unifying fractured toolchains into cohesive platforms that reduce duplication and accelerate research delivery.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at London Business SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Master of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (21)
data-repository10
e-library10
python10
git-repository10
document-repository10
io10
flask-ask10
nio10
content-repository10
flask10
javascript9
html8
jquery8
css7
amazon-elasticsearch4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
inveniosoftware/invenio
May 2014 - Mar 2017
Invenio digital library framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 21 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Harris primarily focused on enhancing the search functionality and user interface within the Invenio digital library framework. They implemented collection-specific templates, allowing for customized presentation of search results. Furthermore, the user made significant contributions to the deposit module, refactoring the JavaScript structure and integrating independent jQuery UI modules. They also deprecated the multimedia module and enabled the Flask-IIIF extension for image manipulation.
digital-librarymultimedia-repositorypythonredisinveniosoftware
drjova/invenio-search-js
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 187 pushes, 75 branches in 1 year 10 months
web-uiclient-librarysearch-clientsearch-enginesearch
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