Vasilis Papavasiliou
Site Reliability Engineer at Booking.com
Athens, Attica, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVasilis Papavasiliou is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Athens with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating reliable cloud systems. Currently at Booking.com, he blends deep DevOps and backend expertise from prior roles at Mist.io to keep large-scale services resilient and efficiently deployable. He contributes to open-source compiler tooling—improving js_of_ocaml’s integration with TyXML and ppx_deriving—which highlights an uncommon mix of systems reliability and functional-language build tooling knowledge. With a solid engineering foundation from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, he focuses on improving build processes and cross-language compatibility to make production deployments more predictable.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
German, French, English, Greek
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
ocaml10
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
json9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ocsigen/js_of_ocaml
Aug 2015 - May 2018
Compiler from OCaml to Javascript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 13 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vasilis primarily contributed to the `js_of_ocaml` repository, focusing on enhancing the integration with TyXML and ppx_deriving. Their work involved updating the TyXML dependency, fixing issues with the ppx_deriving_json plugin, and ensuring compatibility with Camlp4. These changes reflect a focus on improving build processes and enhancing the usability of the library.
javascriptocamlcompilerocsigenjsoo
ocsigen/tutorial-deprecated
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 51 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 6 months
ocsigen
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