Pavlos Tzianos
Co-Founder at Smithy
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPavlos Tzianos is a seasoned systems and DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across startups and scale-ups. Currently a Co-Founder at Smithy after roles at Cloudflare and Thought Machine, he combines hands-on SRE practices with deep Kubernetes, OpenShift and automation expertise. His background spans blockchain engineering, distributed systems, and backend development, reflecting a rare blend of infrastructure reliability and product-focused engineering. Trained at the Technical University of Munich and with early work at CERN, he brings rigorous academic grounding to practical, production-grade solutions. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who moves fluidly between deploying clusters and iterating on platform features, often tinkering with cutting-edge tools like Knative and Istio in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics and Telecommunications, Bachelor's degree Informatics and Telecommunications at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion AthinonMaster of Science - MS Informatics, Master of Science - MS Informatics at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (148)
kvm10
vsphere10
devsecops10
python10
avl-tree10
vagrantfile10
security10
mtls10
automation10
google-cloud10
cloud-platform10
k8s10
encryption10
ssh10
auth10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ptzianos/hermes
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch, 9 comments in 8 months
ptzianos/dracon
Dec 2023 - May 2024
Security scanning orchestration and results enrichment framework -- forked and rewritten from @thought-machine/dracon
Contributions:105 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
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