Konstantina Skovola
Software Engineer at CERN
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantina Skovola is a software engineer with six years of experience specializing in backend and database engineering, currently working at CERN. She spent two years at TigerData contributing to TimescaleDB, where she fixed core bugs and improved features like continuous aggregates, compression, and retention logging—demonstrating a deep familiarity with Postgres internals and time-series performance. Her Google Summer of Code work with the PostgreSQL Global Development Group and contributions to a high-profile open-source time-series project highlight a strong open-source pedigree. Trained as an MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA with an Erasmus stint at KTH, she blends rigorous academic foundations with practical systems-level problem solving. Colleagues describe her work as detail-oriented and impactful, often surfacing non-obvious fixes that improve long-term reliability.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
19.6/20, 19.6/20 at 1st Senior High School of Kallithea, AthensErasmus exchange student, Erasmus exchange student at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8.68/10, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8.68/10 at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Italian, Russian, Greek
Github Skills (9)
database-administration10
postgresql10
admin10
sql10
database9
timeseries-database9
databases9
compression7
timescaledb7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
timescale/timescaledb
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:3 releases, 450 reviews, 68 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Konstantina primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the TimescaleDB database extension. Their work included correcting spelling errors in code, addressing issues with continuous aggregates, and resolving problems related to compression and the `ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS` command. They also contributed to logging mechanisms for retention policies. These contributions demonstrate a strong focus on database internals and the functionality of the TimescaleDB extension.
postgresql-extensionfinancial-analysiscomplex-queriestime-seriestsdb
pljulia/pljulia
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:21 commits in 2 months
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