Stefanos Kyrikakis
Engineering Manager at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStefanos Kyrikakis is an engineering manager based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling high-performance, low-latency systems across fintech and telecom domains. He has led teams at Bloomberg processing 500 billion market events daily and helped architect Yapily’s Open Banking platform as the company’s first engineering hire, combining deep systems design with strong people management. At Nokia he drove resilient, message-driven cloud data stores and introduced left-shifted CI practices, reflecting a pragmatic focus on operational excellence and test automation. Now at Spotify, he continues to bridge product, architecture, and delivery while mentoring engineers and steering cross-team collaboration. Known for navigating both startup ambiguity and large-enterprise scale, he brings a blend of telecom-grade rigor and startup velocity to complex distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. in electronic engineering University of Applied Sciences, B.Sc. in electronic engineering University of Applied Sciences at Hellenic Mediterranean University
English, Greek, German
Github Skills (49)
weave8
raspberry-pi-pico8
asciidoc7
rest7
parsing7
face-recognition7
raspberry7
raspberry-pi-camera7
api7
face-detection7
rest-api7
object-detection6
raspberry-pi6
api-documentation6
calico6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kyrikakis/kube-cluster-ansible
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Deploy a kubernetes cluster on bare metal with ansible utilising kubeadm on Ubuntu 16.04 or CentOS 7 along with dashboard, heapster, influxdb, grafana, kibana, fluentd and elasticsearch add-ons. Network provider one of flannel calico or weave. Can also run behind a proxy
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 days
metalproxycentos-7kibanagrafana
kyrikakis/hailo_tappas_ros2
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 months
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