Solonas Gousteris
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolSolonas Gousteris is a Cloud/DevOps engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines, containerized applications, and secure cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. He has deep expertise in HashiCorp tooling—Terraform, Vault, Consul and Packer—and has applied that knowledge to production-grade automation and infrastructure reliability. At Redpanda Data he improved CI/CD for a high-performance Kafka-compatible streaming project, enhancing test environments and GitHub workflow robustness. His background at Citrix spans cloud platform, security and network analytics roles, blending operations, security-minded engineering and low-level troubleshooting. Based in Greece, he also explores mobile development with Flutter, Ionic and Android-Java, giving him a practical cross-stack perspective that helps bridge platform and application concerns.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, Computer Engineering at University of Patras
Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
container10
docker10
porting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
backport10
ports10
githubaction-workflow10
git9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
go8
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:148 reviews, 25 commits, 183 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Solonas primarily contributed to improving the CI/CD pipeline and related scripts within the repository. They addressed issues related to backport commands, added pagination to the GitHub CLI calls, and updated dependencies for the test environment. Furthermore, the user modified the test environment to incorporate new tooling and dependencies, ensuring compatibility within the docker environment.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
gousteris/ducktape
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
System integration and performance tests
Contributions:22 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
gatlingperformance-testsperformancesystem-integrationintegration-testing
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