Kostas Niktas
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKostas Niktas is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer productivity and CI infrastructure at scale, currently driving improvements on Twilio’s Productivity Engineering/Continuous Integration team. He has deep hands-on expertise in Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript and build tooling, and a track record at Palantir of creating Gradle plugins, Docker registry layouts, and CI automation that measurably reduced support tickets and increased build throughput. Kostas excels at turning operational pain points into automated solutions—examples include bots that sped code review workflows, a gradle-flexversion plugin adopted across 100+ repos, and metric systems that informed performance-first decisions. Comfortable across languages from C++ to scripting and web tech, he blends tooling, observability, and developer ergonomics to stabilize large engineering orgs. He pairs an MS in Computer Science with a pragmatic focus on reducing toil, so teams spend more time shipping and less time firefighting.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (11)
jenkins-api7
api-client6
twilio5
api5
stash5
jenkins5
java4
atlassian4
jenkins-plugin3
artifacts2
continuous-integration2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
twilio-internal/.github
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
twilio-internal Welcome repository for Twilio employees
Contributions:7 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
twiliointernalwelcome
kostasniktas/frinkiac-twilio
Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
A Twilio "app" to query Frinkiac
Contributions:40 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
twilioquery
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