Summary
Nikitas Kotsolakos is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating full-stack systems, primarily in Java (Spring/Spring Boot), JavaScript (React/AngularJS) and PL/SQL, currently shaping network management APIs and applications at CERN. He combines hands-on development with DevOps practices—setting up CI/CD, managing Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, and handling 2nd/3rd line support—to keep long-lived enterprise services reliable while launching replacements when needed. Comfortable spanning backend, frontend and database layers, he has led major feature deliveries, performed hundreds of code reviews, and acted as scrum master to improve team processes. Nikitas is data-minded and user-focused, pairing technical solutions with business process and data-quality improvements, and has a track record of easing migration of decade-old systems into modern architectures.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
CERN School of Computing 2018, 31/33, CERN School of Computing 2018, 31/33 at CERN in collaboration with Tel Aviv University
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7.82/10, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 7.82/10 at National Technical University of Athens