Ioannis Charalampidis
Founding Engineer & Engineering Lead at Kudzu Technologies
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarIoannis Charalampidis is a founding engineer and engineering lead with 14 years of experience building cloud-native and embedded systems from Hamburg. He co-founded Kudzu Technologies and is a founding engineer at Bardeen, blending hands-on system design with team leadership in early-stage startups. His background spans DevOps and infrastructure automation—contributions to notable open-source projects like DC/OS and Marathon show practical expertise integrating Calico, optimizing Docker builds, and hardening performance test suites at scale. Comfortable across embedded and distributed systems, he pairs low-level architectural thinking with pragmatic deployment engineering. Colleagues know him as an unconventional problem-solver who moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping operational reliability front and center.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
docker10
bash10
dcos10
dockers10
cicd10
performance-testing10
bash-shell10
automation10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
calico10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
d2iq-archive/marathon
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:46 commits, 78 PRs, 285 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ioannis primarily contributed to improving the performance testing infrastructure and automating the build and deployment processes. They introduced scripts for manually running performance tests, expanded the test parametrization, and enhanced the test environment setup. Additionally, the user optimized Docker image builds, incorporated a lightweight SSE flag, and fixed configuration issues within the Datadog and StatsD reporters, demonstrating a strong focus on streamlining and improving the project's operational aspects.
containersdcosdockerapachescale
dcos/dcos
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
DC/OS - The Datacenter Operating System
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:85 commits, 18 PRs, 56 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ioannis primarily contributed to the repository by implementing and modifying infrastructure-related configurations. They focused on integrating Calico with the Docker environment, including creating the calico docker network, and configuring docker for cluster store. These changes included adding scripts for network management and updating integration tests. The contributions appear to be aimed at improving the deployment and management of the Datacenter Operating System.
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