Constantine Failadis

I'm a senior software engineer focused on distributed systems and platform infrastructure — the kind of systems that quietly hold everything together, and only get noticed when they fail.

At Arm, I design and own infrastructure that powers engineering workflows at scale. My work spans Kubernetes migrations, distributed storage systems, and ingestion pipelines processing 100GB+ daily. I operate at the intersection of reliability, performance, and developer productivity, where small design decisions can have outsized impact across teams.

I've learned that scaling systems is rarely the hardest part — keeping them understandable is. Much of my work has been in reducing complexity: simplifying pipelines, improving observability, and building systems that other engineers can debug and extend without needing tribal knowledge.

Outside of work, I build GPU-accelerated ML and computer vision systems. I'm particularly interested in problems where real-time constraints, performance optimisation, and system design meet. Recently, I built URVIS — a real-time 4K underwater video enhancement system for ROV operations — and an open-source tmux plugin used by 500+ developers that eliminates manual Conda environment management.

When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm usually climbing, reading, or playing music loud enough to remind my neighbours I exist.