Kostas Nikolaou

Kostas Nikolaou has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Kostas is currently working as a DevOps Engineer - AI/ML at Workhuman, starting in 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a DevOps Engineer at Contino from 2019 to 2021.

Kostas also has experience in cloud systems development, having worked as a Cloud Systems Developer at Cloudreach from 2018 to 2019. In this role, they gained experience in working with large scale enterprise clients and implementing technical solutions on AWS, with a focus on configuration management, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, scripting, and serverless architectures. Kostas was also involved in agile team activities such as demos, Kanban, retrospectives, and sprint planning.

Before transitioning to the tech industry, Kostas worked as a Cities Consultant - GIS Analyst at BuroHappold Engineering from 2014 to 2018. In this role, they contributed to strategic city planning projects, preparing frameworks for analytics and visualizations. Kostas worked on various projects in Saudi Arabia and England, including the identification of optimal locations for housing allocation and bridge construction.

Additionally, Kostas has experience in online content management as an Online Content Manager at Innovation Enterprise in 2014, where they checked and wrote abstracts for over 1000 videos.

Prior to their career in the private sector, Kostas fulfilled obligatory military service in the Hellenic Army from 2012 to 2013, where they served as a Private Soldier and was involved in team combat training and map creation. Kostas also briefly worked as a surveyor engineer assistant at a freelance engineering office in 2012.

Overall, Kostas Nikolaou has demonstrated their expertise in DevOps engineering, cloud systems development, strategic city planning, and online content management throughout their diverse work experience.

Kostas Nikolaou's education history is as follows. Kostas obtained a Master's degree in Planning and Regional Development from the University of Thessaly, which they attended from 2007 to 2012. Kostas also pursued a Master of Research degree in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation from UCL, from 2013 to 2014.

In addition to their formal education, Kostas Nikolaou has obtained several certifications. Kostas became a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in April 2021. In September 2020, they acquired the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification from CNCF. In June 2018, they obtained the Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer certification from Google, followed by the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from AWS in May 2018. Lastly, they obtained the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification from AWS in January 2019.