Summary
Francesca Koulikov is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and GCP, currently leading SRE efforts at Zebra Technologies. She has a strong hands-on background in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD (CircleCI, CodeDeploy), and monitoring with Datadog, having delivered resilient platforms at companies from startups to enterprise (Saviynt, Socure, Illuminate, LogMeIn). Francesca pairs deep operational expertise with automation—writing Python scripts and infrastructure-as-code—to reduce toil and improve uptime, and has practical experience deploying Go, Elixir, and Node.js services. Based in Kingston, MA, she holds advanced IT degrees from UMass Lowell and has progressed from Linux sysadmin work into senior DevOps and SRE leadership, bringing a pragmatic, documentation-first approach often overlooked in fast-moving teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
BA Information Technology, BA Information Technology at Northeastern University
Associate Degree Information Technology, Associate Degree Information Technology at Gibbs College
French, Haitian Creole