Steve Kotsopoulos
Retired And Living The Good Life at FYWSS
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSteve Kotsopoulos is a hands-on technical leader and retired principal software engineer with over 30 years designing and shipping secure, cloud-native systems across enterprise and startup environments. He excels at leading complex projects from requirements through CI/CD-driven production releases, with deep expertise in Java, Spring ecosystem, microservices, identity and access management, and cloud platforms (Azure, Docker). A Microsoft-certified architect and Certified Scrum Master, he blends engineering rigor with practical DevOps and observability practices to keep high-traffic services reliable and performant. His background includes founding product work in access management, managing cross-functional teams at BlueCat and Architech, and building real-time microservices for ad tech—skills that pair systems-level thinking with pragmatic delivery. Now enjoying an active retired life in Toronto, he brings a rare combination of networking/protocol-level experience and modern cloud architecture fluency that few generalist leaders possess.
9 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng and B.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.Eng and B.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (35)
search-engine10
opensearch10
exporter10
java10
prometheus-exporter10
restful10
elasticsearch10
system-information10
procfs9
prometheus9
elastic8
kibana8
monitoring8
visualizations8
observability7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bluecatengineering/fleet
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years
stuvie/pet-store
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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