Kostas Nikolaou
DevOps Engineer - AI ML at Workhuman
Greece
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Top SchoolKostas Nikolaou is a DevOps engineer specializing in AI/ML platforms with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automation on AWS. He combines a strong background in urban modelling and spatial analysis—holding advanced degrees and research on cellular automata and neural networks for urban sprawl prediction—with practical expertise in Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and serverless services. At Workhuman and prior roles with Contino and Cloudreach he delivered secure, large-scale solutions, contributed to monitoring and data platforms, and holds security clearance from enterprise engagements. An active technical communicator, he has improved QGIS documentation with clear feature walkthroughs and screenshots, reflecting his attention to usability and cross-discipline collaboration. Based in Greece, he blends hands-on Linux and scripting skills (Python, Bash, Ruby) with an unusual mix of urban-science intuition and production-grade DevOps tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Planning and Regional Development, 7.73 or 2:1 Upper Second-Class Honours - 300 ECTS, Master's degree, Planning and Regional Development, 7.73 or 2:1 Upper Second-Class Honours - 300 ECTS at University of ThessalyMaster of Research, Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation, Master of Research, Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at University College London, U. of London
English, Greek
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Github Skills (4)
qgis10
rs10
user-manual10
documentation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS-Documentation
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
QGIS Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 15 days
Contributions summary:Kostas's contributions focused on updating and expanding the QGIS documentation. They added information about the "Zoom to feature" functionality and initiated and refined the documentation for "Draw Effects" within the vector properties section. The user incorporated screenshots to illustrate the new features and made revisions to text formatting and spacing to enhance readability and clarity.
pythonqgisrst
credential-dispenser/plinthos
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Plinthos is a project containing all the infrastructure Code as a Service for supporting the credential dispenser.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
dispensercredentialinfrastructureinfrastructure-as-a-codeas-a-service
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