Thomas Arvanitis

Experience

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  National Technical University of Athens

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Network and Systems Administrator

  Network and systems engineer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Computer Center.

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  Ellemedia Technologies

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Embedded System Software Engineer

  Embedded software development, Networking protocol and applications development. Involved in many EU R&D projects.

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  Inaccess

  Aug 2000 - Sept 2002

  Senior Embedded Software Engineer

  R&D and Product development.

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  Inaccess

  Jan 2004 - Jun 2022

  Responsible for:* the product development activities of the company* product and managed services SaaS operations * corporate IT servicesNotable leadership milestones:* introduction in the corporate culture of Lean Management with the design and implementation of Kanban workflows for operations and dev teams* lead company wide deployment of Atlassian Jira and customisation, process mapping and process reengineering for end to end engineering work tracking.* introduction and facilitation of Agile methodologies for the company product development: a Scrum teams per product family * coach the introduction and facilitation of scaled Scrum, using the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework of scrum.org, after the strategic unification of the company products to one common platform Notable engineering projects:* cloud-ification of company's daata center based managed services to AWS Cloud (2012)* migration of company cloud infrastructure from AWS to GCE (2013-2014)* adoption of container and Kubernetes to product development and deployment practices* re-architecture of the common product platform for scale and performance: introduction of NoSQL data stores, streaming technology, horizontal scalability using micro-services, in 3 iterations supporting uninterrupted product and services continuity (2016, 2019, 2020)* manage the implementation of company and offered services ISMS based on ISO27001, and respective certification (2017-2018)* strategically aiming towards a single development environment (replacing polyglot practices) in order to enable cross-team and cross-projects developer expertise reusability, a requirement for true business agility and solid engineering results (2019-ongoing) Show less

  • Chief Software Architect - Engineering Management

    Sept 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Head, Product Development and IT Operations

    Jan 2012 - Sept 2021

  • Embedded Software Team Lead

    Jan 2008 - Dec 2011

  • Network Services and Applications Development team lead

    Feb 2005 - Dec 2007

  • RnD Project Manager

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
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  Power Factors

  Jul 2022 - now

  VP, Development