Summary
Nikos Segkos is a Senior Database Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating resilient data platforms, currently leading DB reliability work at Proton from Geneva. His background spans high-stakes environments including CERN and academic research labs, where he focused on Oracle administration and systems administration before transitioning to distributed database operations. At Proton he progressed from Database Engineer to senior reliability lead, combining hands-on tuning, automation and incident response to keep privacy-focused services performant. He brings a pragmatic blend of academic training in Informatics and production experience, often translating complex requirements into auditable, repeatable processes. Colleagues describe him as quietly mission-driven — helping “build a better Internet” by hardening the databases that underpin secure consumer services.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at University of Piraeus
English, Greek, Serbian, Croatian