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Articles by Dimitrios Liappis

Software Engineer, Elastic

Dimitrios Liappis is an Infrastructure Engineer at Elastic. He holds B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Computer Networks, still remembers Linux in the v1.2 days, and enjoys learning new ways to automate all things infra. Before joining Elastic, he held various roles in Managed Services and Telecoms.

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