Yorgos Saslis
Region of Crete, Greece
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Top SchoolYorgos Saslis is a seasoned software delivery and DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing at Red Hat and active in open-source communities. He combines hands-on expertise in infrastructure automation (Chef cookbooks for PostgreSQL and Tomcat) with mobile development experience (legacy Rocket.Chat iOS client), showing a rare mix of backend, ops and client-side skills. Based in Crete, he thrives on solving complex technical problems and enjoys the people-side of engineering—organizing unconferences like JCrete and AgileCrete reflects his community-first approach. An athletic, sea-loving technologist, he brings pragmatic delivery focus and test-driven rigor to platform support and cross-platform integrations.
11 years of coding experience
2:1, 2:1 at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (34)
objective-c10
cookbook10
ios10
postgresql10
testing10
chefspec10
rocket10
opensuse10
ruby10
tomcat10
chef-client10
automation10
automation-testing10
mobile10
chef-solo10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/tomcat
Jul 2014 - Apr 2016
Development repository for the tomcat cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software EngineerContributions:29 commits, 13 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Yorgos contributed to the development and maintenance of the `tomcat` cookbook, focusing on platform support, bug fixes, and integration tests. The contributions include adding OpenSUSE support by modifying attributes, providers, and templates. They also implemented Serverspec integration tests for verifying the Tomcat installation and configuration across different platforms. Furthermore, they addressed code quality issues through Rubocop fixes and ensured the correct service management for the OpenSUSE platform.
cookbooktomcatchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.iOS
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Legacy mobile Rocket.Chat client in Swift for iOS
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 20 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yorgos's commits primarily focused on the iOS client for Rocket.Chat. Their contributions included initial setup, modifications to the main and detail views within the app, as well as modifications to the app's delegate. They implemented the initial view controller and added a left-side menu with UI elements like account bars and option dropdowns. The user also updated the login and registration views, by integrating with ObjectiveDDP library for server communication, improving the codebase's overall functionality.
rocketchatchat-clientchatrocketswift
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