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

DTW Ignite 2025

Invited by TMForum in the DTW Ignite 2025 to present our ODA Canvas adoption and implementation, showcasing the Future of Composable IT. A significant milestone and achievement.

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Inform IT: 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 - November 2024

Presentation: Designing And Implementing A Capability - Based Platform

Athens Kubernetes Meetup Vol 22 - January 2024

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 Interview

Interview with TheNewStack digital magaine "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?

The New StackAlex Handy

YouTube Live with Red Hat:

Discussed software internals at Vodafone Greece during Quarkus insights episode 33 (2021). Video

Interview for InformationWeek magazine

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.

Information WeekJoao-Pierre S. Ruth

Red Hat Summit 2020:

Invited by Red Hat as a 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 Greece:

Co-written article that was published in the Marketing Week magazine "Personalization = Mobile" (December 2017).

2016

Atcom NEXT 2016:

Atcom Next was featured in the media multiple times, showcasing the technical prowess of the implementation (Proto Thema, Marketing Week).

I also presented a session that showcases the technology behind Atcom NEXT's wow-factors.

2012

Global Mobile Awards 2012

"taxiplon" was a finalist in Global Mobile Awards 2012, surpassing competitors due to its feature-complete business and technical implementation. You can read more here.

2007

Total Hacker Magazine:

Honorable mention (July 2007). Featured for FS2_Open (revival of the classic ‘Freespace 2’ Game by Volition Inc).