John Fotis
💡

Hi, I'm

John Fotis

I build

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

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: Designed and deployed a robust DR solution utilizing Veeam to automate backups from VMware ESXi to a TrueNAS storage environment, ensuring high availability of critical services.
  • Infrastructure & Network Management: Administered a Windows Server infrastructure supporting 1,000+ personnel. Maintained and troubleshot the military Local Area Network (LAN), optimizing performance across switches, routers, and edge hardware.
  • Security & Operations: Enforced strict military-grade security policies and handled classified information while providing Tier 1/2 helpdesk support and resolving complex system anomalies.

DevOps Engineer

Fogus Innovations & Services P.C.

  • Infrastructure Automation & DevEx: Engineered automated CI/CD deployment pipelines and custom scripting workflows using Bash and Python, significantly reducing manual release overhead and improving developer velocity.
  • High-Availability On-Premises Architecture: Provisioned, hardened, and maintained on-premise Linux server environments, applying cloud-native reliability and fault-tolerance practices to physical infrastructure.
  • Systems & Network Optimization: Troubleshot complex OS-level, virtualization, and networking bottlenecks across the application lifecycle to ensure continuous service availability and minimal downtime.

Junior DevOps Engineer

Upstream S.A.

  • Operational Automation & Toil Reduction: Developed a Python automation tool for the integrity checking of campaign draw results, eliminating manual overhead and saving the monitoring team 30 minutes of daily operational effort.
  • Observability & Performance Optimization: Led a migration project from Tableau to Grafana utilizing Helm and the Prometheus Postgres exporter. Drastically improved system performance, reducing UI loading time from 4 minutes to 15 seconds and increasing backend efficiency by over 75 times.

Education

M.Sc. 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.

B.Sc. in Informatics and Telecommunications

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Performance analysis of LoRa and LoRaWAN communications.

Experience

Information Systems Consultant & IT Specialist

96 High Military Command (Hellenic Armed Forces)

  • Disaster Recovery Architecture: Designed and deployed a robust DR solution utilizing Veeam to automate backups from VMware ESXi to a TrueNAS storage environment, ensuring high availability of critical services.
  • Infrastructure & Network Management: Administered a Windows Server infrastructure supporting 1,000+ personnel. Maintained and troubleshot the military Local Area Network (LAN), optimizing performance across switches, routers, and edge hardware.
  • Security & Operations: Enforced strict military-grade security policies and handled classified information while providing Tier 1/2 helpdesk support and resolving complex system anomalies.

DevOps Engineer

Fogus Innovations & Services P.C.

  • Infrastructure Automation & DevEx: Engineered automated CI/CD deployment pipelines and custom scripting workflows using Bash and Python, significantly reducing manual release overhead and improving developer velocity.
  • High-Availability On-Premises Architecture: Provisioned, hardened, and maintained on-premise Linux server environments, applying cloud-native reliability and fault-tolerance practices to physical infrastructure.
  • Systems & Network Optimization: Troubleshot complex OS-level, virtualization, and networking bottlenecks across the application lifecycle to ensure continuous service availability and minimal downtime.

Junior DevOps Engineer

Upstream S.A.

  • Operational Automation & Toil Reduction: Developed a Python automation tool for the integrity checking of campaign draw results, eliminating manual overhead and saving the monitoring team 30 minutes of daily operational effort.
  • Observability & Performance Optimization: Led a migration project from Tableau to Grafana utilizing Helm and the Prometheus Postgres exporter. Drastically improved system performance, reducing UI loading time from 4 minutes to 15 seconds and increasing backend efficiency by over 75 times.

Education

M.Sc. 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.

B.Sc. in Informatics and Telecommunications

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Performance analysis of LoRa and LoRaWAN communications.

Get In Touch

Let’s build something robust together

Connect

Whether you want to discuss infrastructure architecture, network security, or open-source deployments, feel free to reach out!

✓ Copied to clipboard!
Send a message

Find me on