Christina Yakomin

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Christina Yakomin

Senior Manager, Performance & Resilience Optimization · Vanguard · verified 2026-08-31

Christina Yakomin is a Senior Manager in Vanguard’s Chief Technology Office, leading the Performance and Resilience Optimization team. 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. Christina has also worked closely with the Women’s Initiative for Leadership Success at Vanguard, volunteering 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. She has previously shared her technical expertise at many conferences and events, including AWS re:Inforce, QCon, SRECon, and the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit. In her spare time, Christina is passionate about traveling; she has visited twenty-seven different countries and thirty-two US states so far!

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2025

Guidance paperUnclogging the Drain

with Robbie Daitzman

2024

Guidance paperDevOps Enablement with GenAI

with Jason Cox, Adam Zimman & 5 others

2023

Guidance paperScaling Automated Governance

with Jason Cox, Sean D. Mack & 7 others

2022

Guidance paperThe Role of a Platform

with Satya Addagarla, Josh Atwell & 5 others

2022

TalkSpoke at Europe 2022 and Las Vegas 2022

2 talks

2021

TalkSpoke at Europe 2021 and US 2021

2 talks