George Gkonis

Platform Engineer

github.com/georgegkonis · linkedin.com/in/georgegkonis

Profile

Platform engineer with an MEng in Computer Engineering & Informatics, working across the full stack of an IIoT Pharma 4.0 manufacturing platform. I drive its architecture and work hands-on from .NET microservices and Angular frontends to identity and access management, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, security and shop-floor device integration. I enjoy building secure, well-structured systems and helping teams grow the platforms they work on.

Experience

Platform Engineer

Vimachem — IIoT Pharma 4.0 AI Platform · 2023-04 – Present · Athens, Greece

Joined as an intern and grew into the platform engineering role. I work across the entire platform, a microservices-based MES for pharmaceutical manufacturing, from architecture and development to infrastructure, deployment and security, for both cloud and on-premise client installations.

Software Engineer (Freelance)

Fiverr · 2021-09 – 2023-02 · Remote

Built custom Java solutions tailored to client requirements, working closely with clients from start to finish. Clean code and reliable delivery led to consistently positive feedback and long-term collaborations.

Projects

CascadeLP

MEng thesis · github.com/georgegkonis/link-prediction · University of Patras

Link prediction on text-attributed graphs: a four-tier, confidence-based cascade that routes Wikipedia article pairs through progressively costlier models, exiting as soon as a tier is confident enough.

Python · scikit-learn · NetworkX · PyTorch · NLTK · Gensim · Hydra · LaTeX

PowerToys Command Palette Extensions

Personal project · github.com/georgegkonis/command-palette-extensions

Open-source extensions for Microsoft's PowerToys Command Palette. The first, a JetBrains Toolbox extension, lists the projects of every JetBrains IDE installed via Toolbox and opens them directly from the palette.

C# · .NET · PowerToys Command Palette SDK

Infrastructure as Code

Personal projects

A Proxmox VE homelab provisioned with Terraform (LXC/VM modules) and configured with Ansible, with secrets injected from the 1Password CLI; plus an Ansible playbook that provisions a fresh Fedora workstation end to end.

Terraform · Ansible · Proxmox · Fedora Linux · 1Password CLI

University Projects

University of Patras

Education

MEng, Computer Engineering & Informatics

University of Patras · 2018-09 – 2024-09 · Patras, Greece

Thesis: CascadeLP, link prediction on text-attributed graphs (see Projects).

Erasmus Exchange Semester, Computer Science

Universidad de Granada · 2022-02 – 2022-07 · Granada, Spain

Skills

Backend: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, MassTransit, SignalR, Clean Architecture, Microservices

Frontend: TypeScript, Angular, Nx, NgRx, RxJS, PrimeNG

Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Apache Spark, Metabase, jsreport

DevOps & Cloud: Azure, Azure DevOps, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Keycloak, Proxmox, Linux

IIoT: Sensor and RFID reader integration, MQTT

AI Tooling: Claude Code, MCP servers, custom agents and skills

Testing: xUnit, NSubstitute, Moq, FluentAssertions, Vitest, Playwright, pytest

Other: Python, Java, pandas, Jupyter, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Git, LaTeX, Typst

Languages

Greek (native) · English (C2, Certificate of Proficiency) · French (B2, Diploma) · German (A, learning) · Spanish (A)

Interests

Self-hosting and homelab infrastructure, workstation automation, developer tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, identity and security, distributed systems, graph ML and NLP. Away from the keyboard: sailing, skiing and traveling.