Summary
Anya Khvostova is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently based in Miami. She specializes in AWS automation (Terraform, Ansible, Lambda, ECS), CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, Jenkins Configuration-as-Code), and applying 12-factor principles to large government projects like the VA Appeals Modernization and Caseflow. A seasoned Ruby and Go developer with deep experience in configuration management (Puppet, Confd, Etcd), load balancing (HAProxy, ALB/ELB), and observability tooling (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana), she routinely authors infrastructure as code and production-grade deployment scripts. Beyond day-to-day engineering, she has led small teams, mentored engineers, and driven migrations such as VPC and transit gateway consolidations and ALB-based SSL rollouts. Her background in computer security (MS in InfoSec, near-perfect GPAs) and early work on performance and load testing bring a security- and reliability-first mindset to DevOps problems. Notably, she contributed technical leadership to the high-profile Caseflow launch and continues to bridge software development and infrastructure to deliver resilient services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, GPA 4.0, Computer Science, GPA 4.0 at Northern Virginia Community College
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, GPA 3.93, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, GPA 3.93 at George Mason University