Ioannis Kanakarakis
Identity Architect at SUNET
Greece
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Top SchoolIoannis Kanakarakis is an Identity Architect with 26 years of hands-on experience designing scalable, maintainable systems largely within Linux and open-source ecosystems. He co-founded and administers the FOSS community at Athens University of Economics and Business, organizing technical talks and maintaining servers while releasing most public code under permissive licenses. Currently splitting leadership as CEO of Computation Stream and technical identity work at SUNET, he blends infrastructure engineering, full‑stack development, and architecture. A long-time packager and contributor to distributions like Arch and Gentoo, he also contributes stability-focused fixes to notable projects such as cfengine/core. Comfortable with low-level Unix tooling, shell scripting, and build/packaging workflows, he prefers email and IRC for collaboration and maintains personal projects on GitHub. Outside work he experiments with cooking, music and cycling, and continually studies classic open-source texts.
26 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Information Technology at Athens University of Economics and Business
Greek, English
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Github Skills (46)
buffer10
continuous-integration10
python10
wildcard10
configuration-management10
bash10
cli-framework10
c1110
buildbot10
c1710
automation10
pipe10
automations10
scripting9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cfengine/core
Sep 2012 - Apr 2015
CFEngine Community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ioannis's contributions primarily involve bug fixes and improvements to the `cfengine/core` repository. Their work focused on addressing issues related to variable initialization, file path handling, and network bandwidth limiting within the CFEngine system. The user also made minor corrections to documentation and code style. The commits suggest a focus on ensuring the stability and performance of the core CFEngine components.
configuration-managementautomationcfengineinfrastructure-as-codec
xrg/cfengine-core
Feb 2009 - Sep 2016
Contributions:277 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
cfengine
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