CurrentI design and own the data pipelines that bring market data from the warehouse into Origin's market-insights product, and the API that serves it to the frontend. Keeping them simple and effective.
Christos Sotiriou
Software Architect • Platform Engineering
Software.
Simplified.
I design and build software systems that solve complex problems without adding unnecessary complexity. I combine human judgment, AI agents, and hands-on engineering.
18+ years
building production systems
250+ services
across platforms I architected
Millions of users
reached through platforms
14 talks & interviews
Red Hat Summit, DTW Ignite, Devoxx, The New Stack & more
Selected work
Current
Vodafone's cloud-native Core IT platform that established the foundations of Composable IT—component-based architecture, declarative automation, and a path toward AI-driven orchestration. The basis for a large-scale Telco Modernization.
Vodafone's Kubernetes-based microservices platform that evolved into a modern API layer. Modernized legacy data, dropped response times from 30 seconds to 500 miliseconds, and set the basis for company modernizations to follow.
What I've learned
Architecture is not the diagram. It is the story of how a team moves from idea to production - and how fast that story goes.
The time goes in the handovers, not the code.
When delivery is slow, I look between the people first. That's usually where the weeks disappear.
Remove before you add.
The best problem is the one you don't have to solve. The best solution needs no explaining.
Turn rules into software.
Retire the rules that no longer earn their keep, and automate the rest, so people's time goes to what matters.
If it's not in production, it's a hobby.
I measure outcomes, not output.
Public engagements
Speaking, writing & community.
Conferences, meetups and writing about platform engineering, Kubernetes and the future of software delivery.
About
I’ve always been a builder. As systems grew more complex, I became just as interested in making them simpler.
— Christos Sotiriou
More about meCurrent focus
AI-native software systems.
I build systems where users express intent instead of navigating workflows. I combine AI agents with conventional software so the result is reliable, not just impressive.