Ypatia Tsavliri is an engineering manager based in Athens with nine years of experience building low-level storage and embedded systems, now leading teams at TileDB after progressing from Senior Software Engineer to Staff and Engineering Manager. She combines deep C/C++ and systems expertise—demonstrated by contributions to TileDB’s universal storage engine (S3 integration, in-memory filesystem and cache correctness) —with hands-on leadership from a prior role directing a 10-engineer team on a C++/React robotic surgery product. Comfortable navigating large legacy codebases from her time at Cisco, she pairs rigorous testing and automation practices with pragmatic delivery. Known for tackling resource leaks, locking correctness, and edge-case unit tests, she brings an engineer’s attention to detail to managerial responsibilities. Her academic background in information security and electrical/computer engineering underpins a strong systems-and-security mindset that informs architecture and operational decisions.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science Information Security, MSc Computer Science Information Security at EPFL
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
Contributions:549 reviews, 129 commits, 149 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ypatia primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to internal caching mechanisms and the S3 filesystem integration within the TileDB storage engine. Their contributions included adding unit tests for zero-capacity LRU caches, addressing resource leaks, implementing locking mechanisms in the S3 disconnect function and incorporating new features to support element offsets, including element offset on writes. They also worked on the in-memory backend for the filesystem, creating data structures and basic APIs for the memory filesystem.
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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