Erodotos Demetriou

Curriculum Vitae

DevOps Engineer with 3 years of experience in banking: zero-downtime deployments, CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure and workload monitoring.

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experience

Software Engineer, DevOps

2022 – present
Eurobank (formerly Hellenic Bank) · Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Lead the adoption of AI-driven software delivery, building agentic SDLC workflows ("AI software factories") for development teams.
  • Enable large teams to adopt AI securely: controlled access to and deployment of MCP servers, cloud-hosted LLMs, guardrails and AI gateways.
  • Keep internal tooling up to date and patched with zero downtime.
  • Manage enterprise Kubernetes clusters (AKS) for scalability, reliability and high availability, including cluster migrations with minimal downtime.
  • Designed Kubernetes roles for development teams with Rancher, streamlining access control and environment segregation.
  • Configure VMs and deploy services on Kubernetes with Ansible and Helm.
  • Cut mobile app build times by 40% on Azure DevOps through parallelism and caching; support teams across Node.js, Java, Kotlin and Swift.
  • Set up Nexus Repository Manager with IQ Server as a dependency firewall, in line with DevSecOps practices.
  • Integrated Datadog with Kubernetes for logs, traces, APM and monitors.
  • Built proofs of concept for microservice feature environments (Signadot) and AI-assisted SDLC workflows, including an investigation agent that analyses outages from Datadog data; proposed adopting Backstage as an internal developer platform.

Software Developer

2021
HF Markets Fintech Services · Larnaca, Cyprus
  • Full-stack development in Python (Tornado) on internal fund and data management tools.
  • Built API endpoints, cron jobs and SQL scripts for data-driven operations.

education

MSc Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust

2021 – 2022
University of Edinburgh · Distinction
Thesis: Evaluating the Performance and Anonymity of Mix-Networks
Key modules: Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers, Security Engineering, Secure Programming, Modern Cryptography, Research Methods in Security, Privacy and Trust

BSc Computer Science

2017 – 2021
University of Cyprus · 8.4 / 10
Thesis: Implementation and Evaluation of a Blockchain Database for IoT Data
Key modules: Advanced Topics in Databases, Data Mining, Systems Security, Parallel Processing, Computer Networks, Internet Technologies

skills

programming
Go, Python, Bash, Java
tools
Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Datadog, Rancher, Nexus Repository Manager
languages
Greek (native), English (fluent)

awards

2021
Saltire Scholarship for postgraduate students, Scottish Government
2014
Fastest Car Award, F1 in Schools International Finals, Abu Dhabi

publications

Two peer-reviewed papers on blockchain storage for IoT (IEEE MDM '21, BlockDM '21). See publications