Yannis Roussos
Principal Product Manager, Storage Engine at Elastic
Greece
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Top SchoolYannis Roussos is a Principal Product Manager and database specialist with nearly a decade of experience shaping storage engines, cloud-native architectures, and high-performance database products. He has led cross-functional teams from founding-stage products to enterprise integrations, driving multi‑fold performance gains (notably 3.5x at Timescale) and managing critical B2B partnerships. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic product leadership, Yannis moved from founding startups and building e-commerce and real‑time systems to architecting Meltano and leading database sharding and scalability efforts at GitLab. Now at Elastic, he focuses on storage engine strategy, combining a PhD-level background in data management with pragmatic delivery. Based in Greece, he blends deep systems knowledge with a track record of turning complex data problems into user-friendly, production-grade solutions—often by inventing novel cloud-native storage approaches.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Data Management, Ph.D. Data Management at Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of AthensDiploma (MEng) Electrical & Computer Engineering, Diploma (MEng) Electrical & Computer Engineering at National Technical University of AthensLycée Léonin - Patission
Greek, English, French
Github Skills (29)
timeseries-database10
postgresql10
time-series10
analytics10
financial-analysis10
iot10
timescaledb10
postgresql-extension10
sql10
ingest10
sql-database10
database10
gitlab6
istanbul6
api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
iroussos/rails_admin_map_field
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
meltano/tap-stripe
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Singer.io tap for extracting data from Stripe.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
stripesinger-ioextracting-datasinger
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