Steve Liakakos
Principal Platform Engineer
New Forest, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Liakakos is a Principal Platform Engineer with two decades of deep UNIX and Linux expertise, blending hands-on system administration with infrastructure architecture and automation. He is a Red Hat Certified Engineer and Ansible specialist who designs CI/CD pipelines and secure OS builds using Packer, Terraform, Puppet, Git and Jenkins for mission-critical environments. His background spans virtualization (VMware, Xen, KVM), networking, storage and disaster recovery, plus programming in Python, Perl and C, enabling him to solve cross-domain integration challenges end-to-end. Steve has repeatedly delivered large-scale migrations, rapid provisioning solutions and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for both public sector and commercial clients. He thrives on technical, creative roles that leverage his full skill set and has applied aerospace-trained analytical thinking from an Imperial College aeronautical engineering background to complex platform design. Based in the New Forest, he combines veteran operational judgement with a pragmatic automation-first approach that reduces toil and speeds reliable deployments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Aeronautical Engineering BEng, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology, General, Aeronautical Engineering BEng, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology, General at Imperial College LondonChichester High School For Boys
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (16)
heat9
ansible8
openstack7
upi5
cloud-platform3
vcloud-director2
terraform2
infrastructure2
openshift2
elasticsearch2
kubernetes1
provisioning1
vmware1
docker-compose1
docker1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UKCloud/jenkins-openstack-slave-pipeline
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
UKCloud/openshift-deployment-jenkins-pipeline
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:23 PRs, 102 pushes, 45 branches in 2 years 6 months
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