Summary
Stamatios Kourkoutas is a versatile Software and DevOps Engineer with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native microservices and CI/CD pipelines for large enterprises. With an MSc in Software Engineering from Imperial College London and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on coding in Go, Python, and modern infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Prometheus and ELK. He has led DevOps teams for major banking clients, automating operations, scaling monitoring, and managing infrastructure-as-code across Azure and VMware platforms. Currently contributing to release engineering at Elastic, he brings a pragmatic mix of development, automation and release expertise that shortens delivery cycles and improves reliability. Fluent in English and Greek and comfortable in multicultural teams, he also has an uncommon background building a vehicle-management database during military service—an early sign of his pragmatic problem-solving.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computing (Software Engineering), Master's degree Computing (Software Engineering) at Imperial College London
Diploma Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens