Welcome to Αμπελοφιλοσοφίες (A-mpe-lo-fi-lo-so-FI-es), mostly a site of inconsequential mutterings.
The active term would be blog, but that would imply active participation, feedback, trackbacks, an archive, lot’s of code and a lot more content.
So welcome to my collection of personal and professional information, which is going to grow until I get bored with it, the money for hosting runs out or something unexpectedly terminal comes my way.
Be warned, throughout the site the languages used are mixed indiscriminately. If you come across uninteligible characters you’re probably reading greek. There’s english, german, and a smuttering of spanish too, all happily mixed just the way they’re in my head.
Understanding is not required.
My name is Vassilis Rizopoulos and I have been dabbling in software engineering for over 1530 years now.
What started as a hobby of a would-be electrical engineer became full time occupation.
Professionally I specialize in "software productivity engineering", a catch all term for the role that integrates the development environment, test automation, continuous integration and deployment, devops and general behind the scenes tooling that enables software teams to concentrate on producing useful software.
At least that was what I was calling it before Devops was a market term. Nowadays I 've mostly stopped being pedantic about what the terms mean, ask to find out what people mean and say I do software engineering.
My language of choice is Ruby and has been for the past twenty-odd years, but I also have several C and C++ embedded projects under my belt as well as a few C# .NET projects, the odd Java one, some python etc.
I consider myself a programming polyglot and am familiar with a steadily growing list of programming languages. Half of my professional career has been spent working for large industry firms doing really close to the metal stuff, from devices smaller than an Oreo cookie to as large as 60-ton locomotives. The other half is being spent in the cloud, as far away from metal as currently possible.
I was one of the co-founders and organizers of thessaloniki.rb the Thessaloniki Ruby Users group and also had the luck to be part of the organizing committee for EuRuKo 2013 that took place in Athens
If I've made and lasting open source contributions, those are rutema and gaudi
I contribute to open source as damphyr and am generally to be found on social media, but not as much as I used to be.