John Fotis
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John Fotis

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DevOps engineer building reliable web experiences, backend services, and automation workflows. Passionate about open source, product craftsmanship, and scalable system design.

Featured Projects

A selection of my work

High-Performance Go Movie Recommender Engine
Completed

High-Performance Go Movie Recommender Engine

A highly concurrent, low-footprint recommendation engine built purely in Go, featuring a hybrid filtering strategy and support for both CLI and web interfaces.

Golang Big Data Algorithms Jaccard Index Pearson Correlation +7

Tech Stack

Technologies I use to build and automate apps

Operating Systems & Hypervisors

Debian
Ubuntu Server
Proxmox VE
Windows Server

Languages

YAML
Bash Scripting
Python
Go

Version Control - Containerization - Orchestration

Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm

Networking & Security

Cloudflare
OPNSense
Nginx
Traefik
Authentik
Vaultwarden
Wireguard
Tailscale

Storage - Backups - Databases

TrueNAS
Mongo DB
PostgreSQL
Redis

CI/CD - Provisioning - Configuration

GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Ansible
Terraform

Monitoring

Prometheus
Grafana
InfluxDB
Slack

Experience

Information Systems Consultant & IT Specialist

96 High Military Command (Hellenic Armed Forces)

  • Disaster Recovery Architecture: Engineered a robust disaster recovery solution utilizing Veeam to automate critical backups from VMware ESXi directly to a highly-available TrueNAS storage backend.
  • Infrastructure & Security: Administered and hardened a Windows Server infrastructure supporting 1,000+ personnel, enforcing strict military-grade data classification and security policies.
  • Network Operations: Maintained and optimized the physical Local Area Network (LAN), providing Tier 1/2 helpdesk support and configuring routing switches and edge hardware for maximum uptime.

DevOps Engineer

Fogus Innovations & Services P.C.

  • Cloud-Native Infrastructure: Architected and provisioned highly-available bare-metal and Proxmox VE virtualized clusters running Debian/Ubuntu, orchestrating containerized workloads via Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Configuration Management: Engineered declarative CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure workflows using Bash, Python, and Ansible, drastically reducing manual release overhead and configuration drift.
  • Full-Stack Observability: Implemented deep system telemetry using Prometheus and Grafana to proactively identify and resolve Layer 3/4 network bottlenecks and container runtime issues.

DevOps Engineer Intern

Upstream S.A.

  • Observability Migration: Executed a complex observability migration from Tableau to Grafana, deploying the monitoring stack via Helm and integrating a Prometheus PostgreSQL exporter.
  • Performance Optimization: Optimized database querying and monitoring dashboard performance, successfully reducing UI loading times from over 4 minutes down to just 15 seconds.
  • Operational Automation: Developed a custom Python automation tool for the integrity checking of campaign draw results, eliminating manual toil and saving 30 minutes of daily operational overhead.

Education

MSc in Computer, Telecommunications & Network Engineering

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Assessing the Energy and Resilience Trade-offs of Service Mesh Integration and DDoS Mitigation in a Cloud-Native 5G Environment.

BSc in Informatics and Telecommunications

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Performance analysis of LoRa and LoRaWAN communications.
Languages
100%
Greek Native
100%
English Fluent
60%
German Intermediate

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