Stavros Kroustouris
Senior SRE at Elastic
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolStavros Kroustouris is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Athens with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native platforms. He brings an automate-everything mentality to platform engineering, Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), observability and CI/CD—having driven engineering productivity and dynamic environment solutions at Elastic. His work spans hands-on operator and tooling development in Go and Cuelang, Crossplane and Backstage integration, and mentoring cross-organisational teams to deliver GitOps at scale. At Elastic he contributed to the Kibana CI/CD pipelines, enabling image-tag workflows and e2e gating—demonstrating a knack for improving release automation in high-profile open-source projects. Prior roles at Verisign and earlier sysadmin/web development work give him deep operational instincts across networking, monitoring and automation. He combines pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on developer experience and reliable production traffic infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 7.08, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 7.08 at Panepistimion Pireos
English, Greek, French
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Github Skills (24)
docker10
buildkite10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
buildkit10
git9
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
kibana7
html6
django-templates6
appconfig6
python6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Oct 2019 - Sep 2024
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 19 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Stavros's contributions primarily revolve around the CI/CD pipeline for the Kibana project. They focused on modifying the `.buildkite/scripts/steps/artifacts/docker_image.sh` file to update and integrate with the `gpctl` tool. Their work included enabling a new pipeline for image tag updates and removing the legacy pipeline. They also addressed issues related to commit hash parsing and configured the pipeline to run e2e tests before serverless gitops updates.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
kroustou/dotfiles
Jul 2014 - Nov 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 71 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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