Rigas
Papathanasopoulos

Software engineer

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Professional experience

Delivery Hero SE
September 2021 - Present
Delivery Hero SE
• Set up and maintain 70+ GCP projects and 200+ Kubernetes clusters. Develop and maintain tooling for automating the creation, upgrade, and deletion of those Kubernetes clusters with no downtime.
• Collaborate with cross-department teams to consult them regarding SRE solutions that can scale
• Mentor junior engineers and design an onboarding process
• Develop and maintain cost monitoring and alerting using Datadog, achieving a 30% cost reduction in two months
Blueground
December 2019 - July 2021
Blueground
Working as SDET and DevOps, implementing the next generation of the infrastructure as code, using technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Terraform.
Transifex
November 2017 - November 2019
Transifex
Worked as backend engineer. Developed integrations as micro-services using Python, NodeJS, Flask, ExpressJS, Celery, Postgresql, Docker & Kubernetes. Developing & maintaining an open-source collection of file parsers written in Python, a CLI tool and various other integrations, including Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket, Zendesk, Drupal & WordPress.
Arrikto
August 2016 - September 2017
Arrikto
Developed a full-featured user system from scratch that supports authentication through identity providers (LDAP, social media) and exposes a RESTful API. Implemented an OAuth 2.0 server to allow access to external services. Gained a strong experience with Python and Django, dealing with complex design issues and contributing to open-source projects.
KEPYES
November 2015 - August 2016
Hellenic Army Support Center
Served my compulsory time in the Greek Army developing and maintaining software in Java and working with Oracle database systems.
Advantis
May 2015 - July 2015 (intern)
Advantis Medical Imaging
Developed a web application for a medical platform that includes tomograph image manipulation and 3D rendering of brain fibers. Implemented a front-end user system using Angular JS.
reEmbed
October 2013 - February 2014 (intern)
reembed.com
Developed both front-end and back-end software using PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Learned how to work with Git for version control. Had the chance work in a team for the first time and create a solid product together. Reembed.com serves about 5 million videos every day, so I feel glad that my work is discoverable.

Education

NTUA
September 2008 - February 2015
Electrical & computer engineering
Studied in National Technical University of Athens. 5-year studies, equivalent to Master, 300 ECTS. Grade 7.2 / 10. Diploma thesis: Analysis and optimization of Cloud software in shared environment with adaptive resource allocation

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