Ioannis is an SRE with a strong background and multiple years of experience in Operating Systems, Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Platforms. He is passionate about OSS technologies and has contributed to multiple open-source projects over the years. Ioannis holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. In 2017 he was accepted for a full-time internship at the IT department of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Then, he worked for different companies as Software Engineer and expanded his knowledge in virtualization, distributed systems and cloud-native storage. In late 2023 he joined Booking.com's Database Engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer in Amsterdam, Netherlands focusing on reliability and performance of MySQL clusters at scale.