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.
Christos Sotiriou — Software Architect · Platform Engineering
Turning slow IT into
software platforms that ship in seconds.
I design cloud-native software platforms and AI-ready architectures for large organisations: Kubernetes, APIs and agentic systems.
18+ YEARS
Building production systems
250+ SERVICES
Designed, shipped and operated
MILLIONS OF USERS
reached through platforms
Portfolio
Selected work
Vodafone's Kubernetes-based microservices platform that evolved into a modern API layer and read-optimized digital representation of enterprise data.
Archive
More selected workApps, platforms, products and experiments across mobile, backend and infrastructure.
View all workHow I work
Architecture is not the diagram. It is the story of how a team moves from idea to production — and how fast that story goes.
01
Understand
Find where the time actually goes. Spend time with the people involved: the biggest gains usually hide in the handovers and manual steps between them, not in the code.
02
Simplify
Don't add. Remove. The best problem is the one you don't have to solve, and the best solution is the one that needs no explaining.
03
Automate
Retire the rules that no longer earn their keep, then automate what remains. Turn tedious work into software, so people's time goes to what matters.
04
Ship
Measure outcomes, not output. If it's not in production and being used, it's a hobby project.
Public engagements
Speaking, writing & community.
Conferences, meetups and writing about platform engineering, Kubernetes and the future of software delivery.
About
Software is not about coding. It's about thought process and decision-making. I connect needs with solutions.
— Christos Sotiriou
More about meCurrent focus
AI-native software systems.
I'm exploring how software changes when users express intent instead of navigating workflows — and when agents, retrieval and tools become part of the application architecture.