Grigoris Thanasoulas

Grigoris Thanasoulas

Platform Engineer @GitLab
MEng Electrical & Computer Engineering, ECE NTUA

GitLab

Experience

 
 
 
 
GitLab
Platform Engineer
Dec 2025 – Present Amsterdam, NL

The DevSecOps platform, built in the open by an all-remote company.

Work across the GitLab Helm chart, Operator and Omnibus, including a team effort that cut Kubernetes CI cost by ~90% with ephemeral k3d clusters.

 
 
 
 
Friday Energy B.V.
Software & DevOps Engineer
Jan 2025 – Nov 2025 Utrecht, NL

Dutch energy startup combining battery storage, smart energy management and energy-market trading.

Built Go API services for IoT energy assets, coordinated the migration to an in-house IoT platform and contributed to AWS infrastructure and alerting.

 
 
 
 
TrueFullstaq B.V.
Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Jun 2023 – Dec 2024 Amsterdam, NL

Web hosting and managed Kubernetes provider.

Led a zero-data-loss storage migration across Kubernetes clusters and kept multi-tenant SaaS platforms running on a 24/7 on-call rotation.

 
 
 
 
Arrikto Inc.
Mid-Level Software Engineer – Kubernetes & Platform Infrastructure
Jul 2022 – Mar 2023 Athens, Greece

Silicon Valley MLOps and Kubernetes storage startup.

Implemented snapshotting for the Rok CSI driver and worked with the Kubernetes community to upstream scheduler and autoscaler extensions.

 
 
 
 
Arrikto Inc.
Junior Software Engineer – Kubernetes & Platform Infrastructure
Oct 2020 – Jul 2022 Athens, Greece

Silicon Valley MLOps and Kubernetes storage startup.

Extended the Kubernetes Scheduler and Cluster Autoscaler for Rok’s CSI storage, improving scheduling accuracy by 90%.

Education

 
 
 
 
National Technical University of Athens
MEng in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Sep 2014 – Jun 2022 Athens, Greece
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Greece’s leading public engineering university.

Volunteering

 
 
 
 
TEDx NTUA
Organizing Team Member
Jan 2018 – Dec 2020 Athens, Greece
Independently organized TEDx event run by NTUA students.

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Terraform Basics Training Course
Foundations of Project Management