Nikolaos Moraitis
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolNikolaos Moraitis is a Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years building cloud-native infrastructure and release automation, currently driving OpenShift and Kubernetes work at Red Hat from Brno. He combines deep DevOps and back-end expertise—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Kubernetes test-infra (prow) and OpenShift release tooling—with practical skills in Docker, AWS, GCS and multi-architecture image pipelines. His background in enterprise backup and systems administration at IBM gives him a strong operational mindset for reliability, observability and secure CI/CD secrets handling. Nikolaos is comfortable refactoring core tooling, validating complex configs, and scripting end-to-end automation to make large release flows repeatable. He often surfaces pragmatic improvements that reduce manual toil—such as configurable working directories, fail flags, and targeted decoration configs—showing an eye for both developer ergonomics and production safety. Fluent in hands-on systems work and open-source collaboration, he blends long-term infrastructure thinking with day-to-day engineering delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Certificate of Competency in English, Certificate of Competency in English, Certificate of Competency in English, Certificate of Competency in English at University of MichiganSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Institute of Professional Education and Training
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
docker10
configuration-management10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
openshift10
proc10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
devops9
yaml9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:927 reviews, 451 commits, 649 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nikolaos primarily focused on automating and improving the image build and release process for OpenShift. Their contributions included scripting for image mirroring, generating mappings and periodic jobs for multi-architecture support, and creating secrets for the CI/CD pipeline. They also made changes to the release controller configuration and validated generated configurations, demonstrating a focus on infrastructure and deployment aspects. Furthermore, the user's work involved enabling multi-arch image builds, and configuring validation and presubmits, showcasing a deep understanding of the release process.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
kubernetes/test-infra
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:139 reviews, 122 commits, 90 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikolaos contributed to the test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project, focusing on the prow component. They implemented the ability to choose the working directory and added a fail flag to address the state of the records. The user also added configurations related to the default decoration configs by org, org/repo, or '*' values. Furthermore, the user was involved in validating configurations and refactoring code for decoration purposes, including adding OAuth token secret field.
test-infrastructuretestinginfrastructurek8s-sig-testingkubernetes
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