Thomas Pliakas
Senior Software Architect at Nokia
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolThomas Pliakas is a Senior Software Architect based in Athens with a decade of experience designing and tuning low-latency, high-throughput telco systems. He has driven architecture and performance work across Nokia, CloudStreet, and multiple carrier-grade projects, focusing on persistence APIs, in-memory databases, and QoS-driven services for mobile networks. His background blends hands-on C/Java development, platform engineering, and product ownership in agile teams, while his PhD in end-to-end QoS highlights a research-driven approach to real-world network problems. A co-organizer of the Java Hellenic User Group, he pairs deep protocol and performance expertise with community leadership and a knack for squeezing extra efficiency from each project phase. Notably, he has repeatedly moved experimental Silicon Valley startup ideas into operational telco products, showing strength in both innovation and productionization.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 6.52 / 10, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 6.52 / 10 at Technological Educational Institute of CreteDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), End-to-End QoS Provision over Heterogeneous Mobiled & Fixed Networks, Excellent, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), End-to-End QoS Provision over Heterogeneous Mobiled & Fixed Networks, Excellent at University of the Aegean
Greek, English, French
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Github Skills (25)
java9
memory-management9
snap9
spring-boot9
quarkus9
heap9
logging8
parsing8
jvm8
garbage-collector7
cicd7
microk8s7
k8s7
sorting6
garbage-collection6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pliakas/apache-kafka-epta-training
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:53 commits, 38 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pliakas/junit5
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
The next generation of JUnit.
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 years 7 months
testingjavanext-generationjunit
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