Panagiotis Georgiadis

Wendelstein, Germany (Remote) · [email protected] · GitHub · LinkedIn

Global Engineering Leader | Platform Engineering · Cloud Native · AI-Driven Developer Productivity

Executive Summary

Global engineering leader who builds organizations and ships production software. Leads a multi-continent Red Hat engineering organization delivering cloud-native developer platforms on Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, and AWS - while writing Go, contributing to CNCF upstream projects, and creating open-source systems. Defined the agentic SDLC practices and AI governance now used organization-wide. Recipient of Red Hat’s Exceptional Manager Award and invited GopherCon Europe speaker after a project reached the Hacker News front page. Combines Director-level organizational ownership with Principal Engineer technical depth.

Career Highlights

  • Red Hat Exceptional Manager Award (2025)
  • AI Transformation Leader - agentic SDLC and AI governance adopted organization-wide
  • Invited Speaker, GopherCon Europe 2026 (project reached Hacker News front page)
  • Cloud Native Engineering Leader - Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, AWS platforms
  • Open Source Maintainer - PIGO8, libgodc, GoSprite64; CNCF upstream contributor
  • Author - upcoming NES / 6502 systems programming book; 100+ technical articles

Experience

Red Hat - Global Engineering Manager, Developer Sandbox & KubeSaw

June 2023 - Present | Remote, Germany

  • Scaled a global engineering organization across multiple continents delivering enterprise developer platforms on Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, and AWS - owning roadmap, delivery, hiring, and cloud budget.
  • Transformed software delivery by defining agentic SDLC practices, AI governance, and developer productivity metrics adopted organization-wide.
  • Built AI-powered engineering tools that accelerated delivery, automated operational work, and improved engineering insight for leadership.
  • Optimized AWS spend and owned enterprise continuity and risk processes (PIA, AIA, BIA, BCP, BCM) while aligning Product, Architecture, Security, and executive stakeholders.
  • Mentored engineers through career and succession planning, sustaining delivery through multiple product and organizational transitions.
  • Spoke at Red Hat Manager Forums and DevTools Week on engineering leadership, AI adoption, and developer productivity.

Red Hat - Senior Software Engineer, GitOps (DevTools & AppStudio)

January 2022 - May 2023 | Remote, Germany

  • Architected backend and cluster-agent systems that productized ArgoCD as a managed GitOps service on Kubernetes and OpenShift, including private-repository authentication and the platform API.
  • Led OperatorHub productization of the GitOps Operator for enterprise customers.
  • Translated Deutsche Bank requirements into shipped platform capabilities as embedded engineering counterpart.
  • Mentored engineers and taught modern Go practices, including generics, to raise team execution quality.
  • Drove upstream ArgoCD contributions through PR reviews, bug fixes, and CNCF community participation.

Red Hat - Senior Site Reliability Engineer, OpenShift Service Delivery

February 2020 - December 2021 | Remote, Germany

  • Built automation to provision, upgrade, monitor, and self-heal OpenShift clusters across multiple public clouds at enterprise production scale.
  • Operated on-call for hundreds of thousands of production OpenShift clusters, primarily on AWS.
  • Upstreamed Kubernetes-mixin and Prometheus alerting improvements used across the fleet.
  • Led incident response and root-cause analysis while mentoring new SREs into production ownership.

SUSE - Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes HA / Performance / Scale

October 2018 - January 2020 | Nürnberg, Germany

  • Built skuba, a Go CLI that simplified kubeadm-based deployment and lifecycle management for SUSE CaaS Platform Kubernetes clusters.
  • Led BugSquad for a remote team, accelerating defect triage and resolution across the platform.
  • Modernized packaging and release infrastructure for enterprise and community Kubernetes distributions across bare-metal, virtualized, and multi-cloud environments.

SUSE - Principal QA Engineer, Software Maintenance

October 2014 - October 2018 | Nürnberg, Germany

  • Designed automated test systems for SLES security and maintenance updates across supported architectures, with deep focus on SSL/FIPS, systemd, and container platform reliability.
  • Owned emergency security-update response and integrated Jenkins into the maintenance delivery workflow.

Open Source & Technical Leadership

  • Created PIGO8 - open-source Go game engine with WebAssembly export, tooling, and documentation.
  • Created libgodc and GoSprite64 - modern Go on constrained systems (Dreamcast, Nintendo 64).
  • Contributed upstream to Kubernetes, ArgoCD, CoreDNS, Flannel, Traefik, Elasticsearch, Ethereum Prysm, and Kubewarden.
  • Authored an upcoming book on NES programming and 6502 assembly; created Go courses; published 100+ technical articles (dev.to, Red Hat Developers, Unixmen).
  • Spoke at GopherCon Europe, DevTools Week, and industry events on containers and security, serverless, and openFaaS.

Education & Certifications

B.Sc. Automation, Control Systems & Systems Engineering - ATEI Thessaloniki, 2007-2014
Thesis: Face detection with machine learning (Grade: Excellent) · Video · PDF

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Languages

Greek (Native) · English (Proficient) · German (Beginner)