Panos Koutsovasilis
Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolPanos Koutsovasilis is a Principal Software Engineer based in Athens with a decade of experience bridging research and industry to build high-performance backend and cloud systems. He holds a PhD in Unreliable Computing and has moved from academia and research roles into senior engineering and management positions at IBM, Citrix, Metric Gaming, and now Elastic. Panos is an active open-source contributor, notably improving tracing, kprobe performance, and Netflow inputs in Elastic Beats, demonstrating deep systems and DevOps expertise. He combines rigorous academic problem-solving with pragmatic engineering—optimizing low-level observability and shipping production-ready telemetry features at scale. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate academic research on approximate/unreliable computing into concrete improvements in monitoring and cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)PHD, Unreliable Computing, PHD, Unreliable Computing at University of Thessaly
Greek, English
Github Skills (7)
netflow10
go10
trace10
tracer10
performance-optimization10
filebeat10
devops9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/beats
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:224 reviews, 54 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Panos primarily focused on refactoring and improving the auditbeat tracing functionality within the Beats framework. They implemented changes related to the performance of tracing, including the introduction of new features and the optimization of existing code related to kprobes. Additionally, the user worked on the filebeat netflow input, converting it to an API v2 plugin and adding metrics. Their contributions also involved improvements to the codebase by addressing deprecated usages and fixing build-related issues.
tropicalheartbeatlogstashbeatsfilebeat
pkoutsovasilis/beats
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 171 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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