Michalis Kargakis
Board Member at Toucan
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMichalis Kargakis is a Senior Backend Engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and public blockchain applications from Switzerland. He has led engineering teams since 2021 and combines protocol design, security-first engineering, and strong developer experience to deliver production-grade systems. His work spans high-impact open-source contributions to Kubernetes and OpenShift APIs as well as blockchain projects that tokenized carbon credits and secured over $120M of assets. As founder of Kazani he builds web3 products for digital art collectors while open-sourcing components to improve NFT infrastructure interoperability. He brings bank-grade experience from leading the DCHF stablecoin and Web3-native protocol architecture from Toucan, pairing financial markets know-how with hands-on backend and DevOps skills. A polymath with master’s degrees in Digital Currencies and Art Markets, he uniquely blends technical depth with domain expertise in digital art and finance.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at University of ZurichBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Technological Educational Institute of CreteMaster's degree, Master's degree at University of Nicosia
English, Greek, German
Github Skills (62)
kubernetes10
container10
javascript10
docker10
solidity10
build-configuration10
data-integrity10
apidoc10
scripting10
routers10
router10
server-configuration10
bitcoin10
cloud-infrastructure10
web-deploy10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/origin
Jan 2015 - Dec 2018
Conformance test suite for OpenShift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:504 commits, 655 PRs, 11 branches in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michalis contributed to the core functionality of the OpenShift platform, addressing issues in the router and deployment configuration. Their work included improvements to the code's readability, bug fixes, and performance optimization. They also implemented validation for image repositories. The user's contributions span both the backend system for deployment and the automation pipeline for building images and deploying them.
containerscontinuous-deploymentcaaspaascontinuous-testing
openshift/api
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Canonical location of the OpenShift API definition.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Michalis primarily contributed to the OpenShift API definition, focusing on deployment configuration and log management. They implemented features like configurable active deadline seconds, generation numbers for deployment configs, and new endpoints for rolling back deployments. Additionally, the user refactored API types and enhanced deployment config status, demonstrating a focus on improving the functionality and structure of the API. The user also added support for all flags for builds and deployments within the OpenShift environment.
apiopenshiftlocationkubernetesdefinition
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