I'm Kostas Demiris, a DevOps and cloud automation engineer specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS. I design scalable, secure infrastructure, implement GitOps workflows with Argo CD, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines across hybrid cloud environments. Since April 2024 I've been training on a custom dataset for detection/classification, doing synthetic data creation, and real-time object detection with YOLO and OpenCV. I enjoy turning complex engineering challenges into practical, well-documented automation and collaborating with teams to ship robust solutions.

Kostas Demiris

I'm Kostas Demiris, a DevOps and cloud automation engineer specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS. I design scalable, secure infrastructure, implement GitOps workflows with Argo CD, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines across hybrid cloud environments. Since April 2024 I've been training on a custom dataset for detection/classification, doing synthetic data creation, and real-time object detection with YOLO and OpenCV. I enjoy turning complex engineering challenges into practical, well-documented automation and collaborating with teams to ship robust solutions.

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I’m Kostas Demiris, a DevOps and cloud automation engineer specializing in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS. I design scalable, secure infrastructure, implement GitOps workflows with Argo CD, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines across hybrid cloud environments.

Since April 2024 I’ve been training on a custom dataset for detection/classification, doing synthetic data creation, and real-time object detection with YOLO and OpenCV. I enjoy turning complex engineering challenges into practical, well-documented automation and collaborating with teams to ship robust solutions.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Cloud Automation Engineer at Omilia.com
September 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022
Designed auto-scaling on Kubernetes clusters, implemented GitOps with Argo CD, and managed multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters on AWS/Azure using Terraform, Ansible, and Packer. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitLab Runners; implemented secret management with External Secrets Operator and Vault/AWS Secrets Manager; led monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana; supported DR planning and security automation; contributed to load testing and proactive alerting.
DevOps / QA Automation Engineer at Shoox.com
June 1, 2013 - December 1, 2015
Implemented QA automation workflows; performed load testing with Locust on AWS; created and managed on-demand Selenium Grid on Docker; automated CI/CD with Fabric, Ansible, and Docker; automated AWS resource provisioning with Ansible; mentored two QA engineers; contributed to Kubernetes deployments and monitoring.
Disaster Recovery Specialist at Shoox.com
January 1, 2015 - March 1, 2017
Led DR planning with VPC implementation, CloudFormation/Terraform infrastructure modeling, and warm standby DR strategy; managed RDS versioning and lifecycle policies, Route 53 failover, and RDS failover automation via CloudWatch, boto, and AWS CLI; drove cost optimization through spot instances and DR testing in QA/Production.
DevOps / QA Automation Engineer / AWS Solutions Architect at Shoox.com
April 1, 2017 - Present
Standardized monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana; managed Kubernetes/Swarm deployments with Bash; implemented Terraform/AWS IaC; built dockerized CI/CD pipelines; automated deployment and provisioning of AWS resources using Ansible; guided code reviews and mentored engineers.

Education

Bachelor in Economics at University of Macedonia
January 11, 2030 - February 13, 2026

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - February 13, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics