Angelos Fikias - Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer at Dataviva, Thessaloniki, Greece. Building Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks for enterprise-scale systems.
Stack
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Rancher, Terraform, Ansible, Azure, Linux
- CI/CD & GitOps: ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitea Actions, GitOps, Harbor
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Pushgateway
- Security & Config: HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes Secrets, RBAC
- Testing & Automation: Playwright, Artillery, K6, Bash
- Languages: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Java, SQL
Experience
- Associate Platform Engineer, Dataviva (Jan 2026 – Present) - Owns cloud-native infrastructure end to end for a multi-client B2B SaaS platform in retail forecasting and supply chain, across on-prem and cloud. Built a Kubernetes-native E2E and load-testing platform from scratch, provisions client environments with Terraform (Azure AKS, K3s, Helm), owns org-wide CI/CD architecture, owns production incident response (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK), and engineered disaster recovery for production databases (CloudNativePG, Velero).
- DevOps Engineer Intern, Dataviva (Oct 2025 – Dec 2025) - Operated Kubernetes clusters, evaluated tooling and designed initial architecture for a distributed E2E performance testing platform, deployed a product analytics tool via Helm, integrated Prometheus/Grafana observability.
- BSc Applied Computer Science, University of Macedonia (Oct 2022 – Sep 2026), GPA 7.46 - Specialization in Information Systems. Coursework in software engineering, distributed systems, IT infrastructure, and digital strategy.
Projects
- Docker Lab - Production Container Engineering Lab - Self-directed container engineering lab covering the full stack from Linux kernel primitives to production orchestration, with CI/CD, a Prometheus/Grafana metrics pipeline, and written references on container internals.
- EfficienCity - Municipal Resource Management - Enterprise platform for inter-municipality asset sharing and real-time inventory tracking, with microservices on Azure AKS, Kafka event-driven communication, and a PostgreSQL/ClickHouse data pipeline.
- SafeCar - Enterprise Insurance Platform - Insurance platform covering the full policy lifecycle, built with TOGAF and Zachman enterprise architecture frameworks.
- TikiPark - Smart Parking App - Offline-first Android parking app with real-time Google Maps integration and a RESTful PHP/MySQL backend.
Certifications
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), Microsoft
- Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud, Google
- Introduction to Kubernetes, The Linux Foundation
- Serverless Fundamentals, Amazon Web Services
- Linux Fundamentals (LFS101), The Linux Foundation
- DevOps Professional, PagerDuty
- Intro to CD & GitOps using Argo CD, Akuity
- Backstage Fundamentals, The Linux Foundation
- Introduction to Jenkins, The Linux Foundation
- Agile Project Management Professional, Atlassian
- Scrum: The Basics, Project Management Institute
- Enterprise Architecture Foundations, LinkedIn
- Software Architecture Foundations, LinkedIn
- Introduction to Cybersecurity, Cisco
- Oracle Java Foundations, Oracle
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