Personal information
My name is Konstantinos N. Servis (actually Κωνσταντίνος-Στυλιανός Ν. Σέρβης in Greek) but usually just Kosta for short, and this is a page with some information about myself and some of my work experience and interests. I am the father of two wonderful kids and married to an amazing woman (she is my hero). I was born in Greece, but have spent most of my life overseas, mostly in Australia. Home is somewhere between Athens and Brisbane if you believe it should be a single value (Apparently that would make it Port Blair, India although I have never been there).
Contact details
You can contact me on my email and you can message me through skype, and gtalk. My user name in those on-line services is the same as this domain (knservis). You can also find me on linkedIn.
Currently working on
- Data Engineer Snowplow Analytics . You can see the code on github
- Code morsels on github
Have worked on
- Data Engineer/AWS Architect for Atypon (Hadoop/EMR, Spark, Scala, Lambdas...)
- Data Engineering for CBA (Scala, Scalding...) that has a public repo here
- Data Engineering for Atlassian (AWS, Kafka, Hadoop, Storm, Scala, Ansible...)
- Backend development for everyday hero (AWS, Docker, Kafka, Hadoop, Ruby, Ansible, Git...)
- Backend development for InnoGames(Kafka, Hadoop, Kestrel, Storm, Java, Scala, SVN...)
- Mostly backend development for HIE (JRuby, Ruby, Chef...)
- Mostly backend development for APNIC (LAMPerl stack)
- Mostly healthcare application development for Mirrabooka Systems (C, Java, HL7...)
Found interesting recently
- How far away you can see at night when sailing (30 nm in my case, and it was very confusing as you can't judge distances)
- Google fusion documents and how easy it was to create a map with the average sunshine per city in Australia
I like
- Sailing (Currently at RYA Day Skipper level)
- Diving (Currently at SSI Advance level)
- Astronomy (Currently studying for my MSc in Astronomy at Swinburne)
- ML (Currently looking at the DNN courses on coursera by Andrew Ng)