Summary
Anna Poulakos is a Lead Consultant and Cloud SME with over a decade of hands-on experience building web applications, automation tooling, and DevOps practices. She blends deep software craftsmanship—rooted in a childhood of low-level programming—with modern cloud and DevSecOps expertise, having driven platform and cost-optimization initiatives at Renaissance Learning and ThoughtWorks. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript, C#, Docker and Terraform, she moves between coding, architecting, and mentoring, evangelizing reliable CI/CD and test automation. Known for turning operational pain points into practical tooling and training, she also has a background in game and simulation design that informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to systems.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Game and simulation design, Game and simulation design at DeVry University
English, Spanish