Ilias Kiourktsidis
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead at Skimlinks
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIlias Kiourktsidis is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and team lead based in Stony Stratford with a two-decade-long foundation in software development and over a decade in senior engineering and leadership roles. He currently leads engineering at Skimlinks after serving as CTO of Zebra Fuel, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Python, microservices, DevOps, and data-oriented tooling like Pandas and NumPy. His career spans startups and enterprise consulting where he has designed everything from e-commerce platforms to scalable microservice architectures and introduced DevOps practices and CI/CD across teams. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs backend systems work (Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, Postgres) with infrastructure automation (Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, ELK) to ship resilient production services. He holds advanced degrees from Brunel University, including PhD-level research experience, which informs a methodical, data-driven approach to system design and mentorship. Colleagues know him for turning legacy systems into automated, testable platforms and for blending academic rigor with practical engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Technological Educational Institute of PeiraiaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Brunel University of London
Greek, English
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Github Skills (10)
api10
rest10
django10
python9
django-rest-framework9
rest-api9
ansible5
simulator5
simulation5
docker3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ekiourk/docker-ns2
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 months
network-simulatordockersimulationsimulatorinside-docker
ekiourk/wait-for-it
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 11 tags in 1 year 9 months
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