Stathis Souris
Principal Software Engineer - Foundation Services
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStathis Souris is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building resilient, JVM-based backend systems and observability platforms at ThousandEyes (Cisco). He has progressed through roles from Software Engineer to Technical Leader and now leads Foundation Services, specializing in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka Streams, and cloud-native tooling like Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana. Stathis combines deep protocol and networking experience (BGP platform, endpoint agents) with pragmatic full‑stack observability practice, helping teams ship reliable telemetry and agent software at scale. Having started his career in Greece and moved to London, he brings an international perspective and a taste for pushing technical boundaries in complex distributed systems. Colleagues know him for turning legacy challenges into modern, testable architectures and for a quiet focus on deliverability over flash.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University Of CreteUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Greek, English
Github Skills (80)
sink10
serverless10
database10
cdc10
kafka-connect10
redhat10
groovy10
java10
apache-kafka10
kotlin10
kafka-producer10
micronaut9
redis-client9
event-streaming9
sql9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ssouris/petclinic-spring5-reactive
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:35 commits in 6 months
ssouris/test-release-plugin-out
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 24 tags in 1 day
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