Stavros Foteinopoulos
Principal Platform Engineer
Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
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Top SchoolStavros Foteinopoulos is a Principal Platform Engineer with 11 years of hands-on SRE and cloud infrastructure experience, now based in Ioannina, Greece. He specializes in practical, cost-aware cloud-native solutions, having led major initiatives like MySQL-to-Postgres migrations, Loki logging adoption, and enterprise Cloud SaaS resiliency at Mattermost. Stavros blends FinOps, GreenOps and compliance (including FIPS-related work) into everyday engineering, making reliability and cost-efficiency complementary goals. He’s a mentor-minded engineer who promotes self-serve tooling, SLO-driven practices and disaster-recovery playbooks across teams. His background spans freelancing, academic projects and production platform leadership, giving him a rare mix of research-aware thinking and pragmatic automation. Colleagues value his knack for turning operational pain points into durable, business-aligned infrastructure improvements.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Information Systems Security, Master of Science (MSc) Information Systems Security at Democritus University of ThraceMEng. Electrical and Computer Engineering, MEng. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Democritus University of Thrace - Faculty of Engineering
English, German, Greek
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Github Skills (200)
scheduling10
operator10
mesos10
prometheus10
deployment-automation10
kubernetes-monitoring10
notification-service10
terraform-provider10
controller10
terraform10
ingress-nginx10
collaboration10
mattermost10
kubernetes10
ingress-controller10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost-pgbouncer-config-reload
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
stafot/grafana-helm-charts
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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