Public Speaking
I've had the opportunity to share my thoughts, experiences, and projects over the years in various public speaking engagements, articles, and events. Here’s a look back:
2025
- Interview with TMForum. Interviewed about the adoption of the TMForum ODA standard and implementation of the ODA Canvas.
Vodafone Greece leads the way on automation with ODA Canvas
Vodafone Greece is already benefiting from automating live operations with ODA Canvas, prior to it becoming general available in 2025, as the company’s Principal Architect Platforms Design, Christos Sotiriou, explains in an interview with Inform.
Joanne Taaffe
2024
- API Athens Greece Meetup #B4,: Presentation: Designing And Implementing A Capability - Based Platform
- Athens Kubernetes Meetup Vol 22: Presented CELL Platform to the public. CELL Platform: Reimagining Telco Infrastructure, Tech Post here
2023
- Devoxx Greece: Technical session with Red Hat's Georgios Andrianakis on "Battle of the Frameworks: Quarkus vs SpringBoot".
2020 - 2021
- The New Stack: Article - "How Vodafone Greece Built 80 Java Microservices in Quarkus" (2020).
How Vodafone Greece Built 80 Java Microservices in Quarkus
Tossed into a Java world – can you make it back to reactive, event-driven environments and scalable containers?
Alex Handy
- YouTube Live with Red Hat: Discussed software internals at Vodafone Greece during Quarkus insights episode 33 (2021). Video
- InformationWeek Magazine: Interview - "Why Vodafone Greece Devs Migrated to Red Hat's Quarkus" (2020).
Why Vodafone Greece Devs Migrated to Red Hat’s Quarkus | InformationWeek
Changing gears to another framework helped reduce boot times and resource usage, especially during traffic spikes.
Joao-Pierre S. Ruth
- Red Hat Summit: Speaker on Vodafone Greece’s Migration Journey from SpringBoot to Quarkus (2020). Event
- Fireside Chat on YouTube Live: With Red Hat's Dimitris Andreadis (2020). Video
- Red Hat Quarkus Blog: Wrote about Vodafone replacing Spring Boot with Quarkus (2020). Blog
2017
- Athens iOS Meetup: Spoke about Taming Asynchronous Networking Using Promises in Swift 4. Details
- Marketing Week Magazine: Article "Personalization = Mobile" (December 2017).
2016
- Atcom NEXT 2016: Featured in the media (Proto Thema, Marketing Week).
2012
- Global Mobile Awards 2012: "taxiplon" was a finalist.
2007
- Total Hacker Magazine: Honorable mention (July 2007). Featured for FS2_Open (revival of the classic ‘Freespace 2’ Game by Volition Inc).