Summary
Kristen Koyanagi is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient infrastructure and developer tooling across fintech and health tech. She has driven cloud and CI/CD improvements at Capital One and Blend—working with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Ansible, and observability tooling—to speed builds, standardize pipelines, and improve platform reliability. Now at Included Health, she focuses on cloud platform engineering, bringing practical experience automating secure, scalable environments for distributed teams. Kristen pairs systems engineering training from Washington University with hands-on DevOps craftsmanship and a history of mentoring and campus recruiting, signaling both technical depth and a commitment to developing engineering talent. An understated strength is her track record of optimizing build systems and CI caching to materially reduce developer feedback loops.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Bachelor's Degree, Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)