Ilias Kypraios
10+ Years
4 Roles
6 Specialties
Rhodes · Greece

Ilias Kypraios

_ Cloud & Systems Engineer

Linux infrastructure, automation, and operational data at scale. Over a decade of experience spanning shared hosting, managed WordPress platforms, cloud infrastructure, LXC containers, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, and ELK clusters. Full-time SysOps at Kinsta. Taking on selected freelance projects.

What I bring to the table

System Administration

End-to-end Linux environment management — installation, security hardening, performance tuning, monitoring, and incident response for stable, production-ready infrastructure.

DevOps Services

Infrastructure as code, containerization, and CI/CD with Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. Pipelines that eliminate manual work and make environments fully reproducible.

Automations & AI

Infrastructure and business automations using Python, Bash, and AI tooling. Integrations and assistants that connect systems, act on metrics, and accelerate incident response.

Cloud Management

Architecting and operating cloud environments across hyperscalers. Migrations, monitoring, backups, and cost optimization aligned to real business requirements.

Data Engineering

Log and data at scale with the ELK stack. Ingestion pipelines, Elasticsearch cluster management, and dashboards that turn infrastructure signals into actionable insights.

Web Development

WordPress, WooCommerce, and Laravel websites for SMBs — setup, performance, and security improvements tightly integrated with the hosting environment.

Tools & Platforms

Web

NginxApacheRedisPHP-FPMLaravelWordPressWooCommercecPanelPlesk

Observability

ELK StackZabbixPrometheusGrafanaDatadogNew Relic

Development

GitBashPythonPHPCI/CDAnsibleTerraform

Virtualization

DockerLXC/LXDKVMKubernetes

Cloud

AWSGCPDigitalOceanLinodeCloudflareOracleUpcloudHetzner

Databases

MySQLMariaDBPostgreSQLElasticsearchRedis

OS

UbuntuDebianCentOS

Tools

JiraConfluenceSlackNotion

Where I've worked

SysOps Engineer

Kinsta Current

2022 – Present

Managing LXC containers, Kubernetes orchestration, and Ansible automation for a global managed WordPress platform. Key focus on data engineering, operating a large ELK cluster, building log pipelines, and surfacing actionable signals. Advanced troubleshooting across WordPress, Cloudflare, and Linux.

Support Systems Administrator

Pagely (GoDaddy)

2021 – 2022

Enterprise-level support for high-traffic WordPress on AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3). Contributed to Ansible configuration management and Docker-based PHP deployments. Diagnosed complex infrastructure issues for business-critical environments.

Senior Support Engineer

Papaki (Team Blue)

2018 – 2021

Managed dedicated servers and VPS at one of Greece's leading hosting providers. Built internal tooling with Laravel, mentored support staff, and handled everything from shared hosting triage to DNS and server-level debugging.

Freelance SysAdmin & Developer

Self-Employed Current

2011 – Present

Selected freelance projects for SMBs: WordPress, WooCommerce, and Laravel development, server management, cPanel/Plesk administration, DNS configuration, and network setup.

Let's Connect

Open to new projects and collaborations.