Patroklos Papapetrou
Lead Open Source Engineer at Octopus Deploy
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolPatroklos Papapetrou is a Lead Open Source Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building resilient backend systems, driving code quality, and shaping agile teams from Thessaloniki, Greece. He combines deep engineering expertise—spanning Go, Java, Kubernetes, helm/ArgoCD, REST and gRPC—with leadership roles at companies like Elastic, MessageBird, Banked and now Octopus Deploy. A pragmatic manager and founder (SoftConf) who also organizes developer conferences (Devoxx Greece, Voxxed Days), he blends product thinking with community-building to accelerate knowledge sharing and team growth. Patroklos is passionate about developer productivity and quality tooling, co-authoring professional books and contributing to conference ecosystems, which reflects his commitment to craft beyond shipping features. Colleagues describe him as an agile evangelist who values learning from both successes and failures and invests in people as much as architecture. His uncommon mix of R&D, technical authorship, event leadership and applied platform engineering helps teams deliver reliable, observable systems at scale.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree MSc in Software Engineering and Telecommunications, Master's degree MSc in Software Engineering and Telecommunications at The University of SheffieldBachelor's degree BSc in Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree BSc in Software Engineering at Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
Greek, English, French
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sonarqube
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Github Skills (56)
oop10
client-library10
ess10
sonarqube10
go-client10
command-line-interface10
oop-principles10
elastic10
cloud-control10
java9
refactor9
aws9
php9
golang8
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SonarQubeCommunity/sonar-l10n-el
Oct 2011 - Dec 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 years 3 months
ppapapetrou76/virtual-assistant
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
Virtual assistant is a github action to automate several tasks
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 42 commits in 5 months
assistantautomationvirtual-assistant
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