About

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Summary

I’m Alexandros Papageorgiou Koufidis, a DevOps-focused software developer from Greece, currently living in Amsterdam. Besides creating good software, I believe in diversity of thoughts, bodies and minds, as an inclusive way to address the inequalities we face today and may face tomorrow.

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Quick bio

At 18, I started working various entry-level jobs. At 21, and while interning as a SysAdmin for my university I developed an app for hobby games sellers to automatically price their products based on various algorithms and strategies.

Next year I dropped out of university and moved to Poland for romance, while working remotely at a VR game development startup.

After going back to Greece, I started a hobby games web store with a friend, then moved to Switzerland when I started working for CERN. On the same year, 2019 I also cofounded Thalatta, a software development startup.

After CERN, I pivoted to DevOps and worked at Zivver, a secure communications company in Amsterdam, then VanMoof, a high-tech ebike scaleup.

I’m currently working as an SRE at Miro, a visual collaboration editor.

Quick facts & trivia

I was the youngest presenter at CERN Spring Campus
In the same event, I painted my hair green for my introductory DevOps presentation “Green is the warmest color”
Between 21 and 25 I lived in 5 houses across 4 countries (and also spent some months as a digital nomad)
I was a Magic:the Gathering judge and community leader, and served as Country Coordinator for Greece
This question about whether we have written examples of H.P. Lovecraft’s racism, led me to turn vegan
I have multiple accents of English and I switch between them based on context

I believe in salary transparency. You can see my tech compensation data here.

Thanks for being here and reading through this, enjoy your day!