About
Hi, I'm Tanya.
I fell in love with IT the moment the first computer entered my life, when I took it apart completely and barely managed to put it back together. That was when the internet was still dial-up, with its memorable connection sound that also tied up the home phone. Maybe that's why my grandmother always grumbled about "modern technology" whenever she couldn't call her friends.
My first programming language was Pascal. My favorite in university was assembly. I used Linux for years, but in the end macOS won me over with the simple "set it up once and forget it."
What drew me to programming and computers was that everything in them is always clear and predictable. Everything built on logic. And you can construct your own systems. That love for systems is what led me to the cloud and to infrastructure.
Designing systems is something in my blood. Something that can absorb me completely. I build them everywhere, from my own life to the projects I work on.
This isn't just my job. It's me. It's the way I think. Maybe that's why mathematics, for me, isn't a tool. It's the language the universe runs on.
All of this together brought me to IT, as if there was never another option.
Frequently asked
- What does Tanya Babitskaya do?
- She is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and Infrastructure Lead at Flare Emergency Response, responsible for the AWS architecture, CI/CD, observability, and cloud costs of a healthcare emergency dispatch platform.
- What is Tanya's AWS background?
- 8+ years on production AWS, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, and an AWS Subject Matter Expert contributing to certification exam development since 2024.
- What kind of systems has she built?
- Multi-account AWS Organizations with centralized identity and guardrails, ECS/Fargate and Aurora PostgreSQL production platforms, CDK-based infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions pipelines, and observability with CloudWatch, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. She has delivered a 54% cloud cost reduction without reliability trade-offs.
- Which compliance regimes has she worked under?
- HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR, in healthcare and EU client contexts.
- Does she work with AI systems?
- Yes. She builds agent-based tooling on Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol and writes about governing AI coding agents securely.
- Where is she based and how to reach her?
- Gdynia, Poland (UTC+1/+2). Email hello@tanya.engineer or LinkedIn.
What colleagues say
She is exceptionally diligent, hardworking, and thoughtful, and brings both care and rigor to everything she does. She is someone you can truly rely on, and I am confident she would bring valuable expertise, strong judgment, and a collaborative spirit to any team.
She takes responsibility for the infrastructure she works on and genuinely cares about keeping it secure, reliable, and available. She also has a very strong understanding of AWS and knows how to use it to build and run production infrastructure effectively. Her focus on security is something I have always appreciated.
She is highly responsible, reliable, and consistently delivers high-quality work. One of the things I appreciate most is how responsive she is, always available when needed, making collaboration smooth and efficient.