Vasileios Kotronis
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco ThousandEyes
Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolVasileios Kotronis is a software engineering technical leader and former CTO with 8+ years of experience building and scaling real-time BGP observability and network security platforms. He combines deep research pedigree (ETH Zurich, FORTH) in Internet routing and SDN with hands-on product and DevOps expertise—designing microservices, Kubernetes-based pipelines, and high-throughput data ingestion for BGP/BMP and RPKI telemetry. At ThousandEyes he leads backend engineering for real-time BGP data processing and alerting, while previously co-founding Code BGP and shipping the ARTEMIS open-source hijack detection tooling into production-grade SaaS. He’s equally comfortable in low-level routing protocols and cloud-native stacks, automating workflows to turn research-grade network measurements into operational products. Based in Greece, he thrives on hard engineering problems at Internet scale and has a track record of moving academic prototypes into commercial services.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Apolythrion general education, Apolythrion general education at 8o Lykeio Amarousiou (Highschool)Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc.) ETH Zurich Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc.) ETH Zurich Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH ZürichDiplomate Engineer (Dipl.-Ing) equivalent to M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diplomate Engineer (Dipl.-Ing) equivalent to M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, German
Github Skills (75)
realtime10
prefix10
hasura10
rest-api10
backend10
haskell10
graphql-api10
trigger10
api10
bgp10
access-control10
artemis10
bigquery10
database-events10
monitor10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FORTH-ICS-INSPIRE/artemis
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
ARTEMIS: Real-Time Detection and Automatic Mitigation for BGP Prefix Hijacking. This is the main ARTEMIS repository that composes artemis-frontend, artemis-backend, artemis-monitor and other needed containers.
Contributions:13 releases, 116 reviews, 1283 commits in 5 years 1 month
containersmonitorartemisreal-time-detectionbgp
codebgp/pg2kafka
Jun 2021 - May 2023
Ship changes in Postgres 🐘 to Kafka 📖
Contributions:26 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years
sinkshipproducerpostgrespostgresql
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