Nick Nikitas
Senior Platform Engineer
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Nikitas is a Senior Platform Engineer with 8 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platform and data infrastructure, currently shaping platform reliability at Blueground from Athens. He blends DataOps and SRE expertise—migrating big data stacks to Kubernetes, building containerized Python REST services, and running Kafka, Spark and Trino/Presto migrations—while driving CI/CD, cost optimization and observability improvements. Past roles at FREENOW and NTUA show a track record of cutting AWS costs, instrumenting Kafka with Prometheus/Grafana, and enforcing infrastructure-as-code standards with Terraform, Atlantis and OPA. He holds an MS in Data Science & ML and an engineering diploma, pairing rigorous academic training with hands-on systems work. Notably, he has moved research-grade big data projects into production-ready Kubernetes environments, bridging academic projects and production SRE practices.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Engineering (5 years 300 ECTS B.Eng. - M.Eng. combined) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma in Engineering (5 years 300 ECTS B.Eng. - M.Eng. combined) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of PatrasMaster of Science - MS Data Science & Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Data Science & Machine Learning at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (109)
terraform10
terraform-module10
terraform-provider10
aws10
kind9
migrate9
stream-processing9
ieee9
data-integration8
incremental-processing8
kubernetes-deployment8
kubernetes-cluster8
volumes8
kubernetes-setup8
contour8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nikoshet/spark-cherry-shuffle-service
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Code for the "Cherry: A Distributed Task-Aware Shuffle Service for Serverless Analytics" paper for 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 months
shufflingserverlessbigdatashuffledocker
nikoshet/Drive-Together
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Web Development Project
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cssjavascriptweb-developmentweb-development-project
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