Dimitris Baltas
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at TheraPanacea
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolDimitris Baltas is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Athens with 14 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems and coaching teams to improve delivery. He blends hands-on SRE and backend engineering with leadership roles—former Product Development Team Lead and Senior Engineering Manager—focusing on automation, TDD, systems thinking and measurable team performance. At TheraPanacea he has combined product and reliability work to improve cancer-care software, and his open-source contributions to paratestphp/paratest show a practical knack for making test frameworks more robust in parallel execution. A longtime agile advocate and coach, he has a track record of transforming teams and architectures while still shipping code and running experiments. Colleagues know him for prioritizing observable, testable systems and for bringing an educator’s mindset to technical mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Ioannina
English, Greek, German, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
test-automation10
php10
test-framework10
parallel-testing10
parallel-tests10
phpunit10
testing10
environment-variables8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paratestphp/paratest
Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
:computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dimitris focused on improving the testing capabilities of the `paratestphp/paratest` repository, which is designed for parallel testing in PHPUnit. Their contributions included enhancing the `TestBase` class with methods to call protected and private methods, setting object values for protected/private properties, and refining the runner to handle unique tokens for child processes through environment variables. Additionally, they addressed specific issues related to test dependencies and functional mode execution, contributing to the overall reliability and functionality of the testing framework.
parallel-testingphpunit
dbaltas/ergo
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
moved to beatlabs/ergo
Contributions:6 releases, 54 commits, 31 PRs in 11 months
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