Kostas Kaskavelis
Test Automation Manager
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolKostas Kaskavelis is a Test Automation Manager and software engineer with a decade-plus career spanning space agencies, telecoms, ride-hailing, cloud monitoring, and open-source cloud integration at Canonical. He leads teams that shift manual QA into robust automation pipelines and has built test infrastructure and regression suites from scratch for companies like Netdata and Beat. Comfortable across embedded telecom stacks to cloud-native products (Ubuntu, Juju, MAAS, Charmed platforms, MicroK8s), he combines pragmatic engineering with a scientific mindset—pursuing a PhD in Theoretical Physics researching early-universe inflation in parallel with his day job. Based in Athens, he’s experienced in delivery for high-stakes stakeholders (European Commission projects, major telecom clients) and favors solutions that scale verification across complex distributed systems.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
SSP10 Space Studies Program, SSP10 Space Studies Program at International Space UniversityPhD candidate Theoretical Physics, PhD candidate Theoretical Physics at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonM.Sc Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.Sc Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of AthensM.Sc. Theoretical Physics, M.Sc. Theoretical Physics at King's College London
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (61)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
docker10
observability10
dashboard10
statsd10
postgresql10
mysql10
netdata10
linux10
time-series10
machine-learning10
graphite10
grafana10
analytics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kaskavel/netdata
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Real-time performance monitoring, done right! https://www.netdata.cloud
Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 3 branches in 26 days
realtimeperformance-monitoringnetdataobservabilityperformance
kaskavel/tha-sdet
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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