Michael Vogiatzis
Chief Technology Officer at OKTO
London, England, Greece
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Top SchoolMichael Vogiatzis is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with 13 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native enterprise systems across finance and e-commerce. He blends hands-on backend engineering (Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, Kubernetes) with architectural leadership, having led engineering teams at JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and OKTO. Comfortable navigating business and technical stakeholders, he specializes in microservices, real-time streaming, high-performance databases and observability while keeping pragmatic focus on clean, testable code and agile delivery. Michael’s background in big data and functional programming — plus early work in real-time analytics and low-level systems — gives him a rare ability to bridge data-intensive platforms with production-ready infrastructure. Based between London and Greece, he stays active in tech communities and experiments with emerging tools like blockchain/Solidity and Go to inform practical adoption strategies. Colleagues describe him as mission-driven: solving complex problems in the simplest possible way while scaling teams and platforms reliably.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Informatics Specialization in Computer Systems & Software Engineering, M.Sc. Informatics Specialization in Computer Systems & Software Engineering at The University of EdinburghDiploma of Engineering (5 years M.Sc. equivalent) Computer Engineering and Informatics, Diploma of Engineering (5 years M.Sc. equivalent) Computer Engineering and Informatics at University of Patras
English, German, Greek
Stackoverflow
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9answers
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machine-learning
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Github Skills (69)
http-api10
python10
r10
scale10
sql10
spark10
java10
scala10
mock-server10
stubbing10
mocking10
version-control10
jdbc10
php10
xml10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mvogiatzis/storm-unshortening
Mar 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 8 months
mvogiatzis/first-stories-twitter
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
How to spot first stories on Twitter using Storm.
Contributions:16 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year
stormtwitter-apitwitterspot
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