Speaker: Christina Yakomin

(She / her / hers)

Senior Site Reliability Engineering Specialist @Vanguard_Group

Christina is a Senior Site Reliability Engineering Specialist in Vanguard's Chief Technology Office. She has worked at the company's Malvern, PA headquarters since graduating from Villanova University with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science. Throughout her career, she has developed an expansive skill set in front- and back-end web development, as well as cloud infrastructure and automation, with a specialization in Site Reliability Engineering. She has earned several Amazon Web Services certifications, including the Solutions Architect - Professional. Christina has also worked closely with the Women's Initiative for Leadership Success at Vanguard, both internally at the company and externally in the local community, to further the career advancement of women and girls - in particular within the tech industry. In her spare time (and when it is safe to do so!), Christina is passionate about traveling; she has visited over 20 different countries and 25 U.S. states so far!

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Practical Resilience - The Core Stuff

This panel will aim to explore, share ideas and provide pragmatic insight around some key areas related to designing, running and maintaining resilient architectures.

Date

Tuesday Apr 5 / 02:55PM BST (50 minutes)

Location

Whittle, 3rd flr.

Track

Resilient Architectures

Topics

Resilient Systems

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The Scientific Method for Testing System Resilience

Do you remember the Scientific Method from elementary school science class? It's time to dust off that knowledge and use it to your advantage to test your IT systems! In this session, you'll be re-introduced to the Scientific Method, and learn how Vanguard's software engineers and IT architects draw inspiration from it in their resilience testing efforts. We’ll do a deep dive into the "Failure Modes and Effects Analysis" technique, in which engineers examine complex architecture diagrams, asking themselves questions about the failure modes of various technical components and developing hypotheses based on their expectations of how the system would behave. Then, we’ll discuss how the engineers use these conjectures as inputs into experimentation, selecting and executing chaos experiments accordingly to validate (or disprove!) their hypotheses. We’ll even take a look behind the curtain at how some of these fault injection tests are implemented at Vanguard.

Date

Tuesday Apr 5 / 01:40PM BST (50 minutes)

Location

Fleming, 3rd flr.

Track

Resilient Architectures

Topics

Resilient SystemsChaos Engineering

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