Anna Veretennykova
Founder & Engineer
Summary
Five years building cloud infrastructure and distributed systems at scale — Kubernetes across 50+ clusters, AWS platform engineering, microservice architecture, and GitOps workflows with full lifecycle ownership. In 2025, moved into independent product engineering: the ANNÁVE PDF Engine (server-side Go, open source) and CLI are live; PasspoPet launching on iOS. Two public repos on GitHub — PDF engine and developer CLI. Documentation at docs.annave.tech; technical writing at blog.annave.tech. Architecture, engineering, design, and deployment — every decision, solo.
Core Expertise
Product Engineering · Cloud Infrastructure · Kubernetes & AWS · iOS Development · Go · PDF Engine · CLI · Distributed Systems · DevOps & GitOps · Full-Stack Architecture
Experience
Founder-led products end to end — ANNÁVE Tools, PasspoPet for iOS, and open-source Go tooling. Architecture, design, implementation, and deployment with solo ownership across the stack.
- ANNÁVE PDF Engine: Built the open-source ANNÁVE PDF Engine (Go) and CLI for document-to-PDF conversion — server-side processing, files not stored.
- PasspoPet: Native iOS app for pet travel docs in Swift and SwiftUI with local-first storage and privacy-by-design architecture.
- ANNÁVE CLI: Released open-source Go CLI modules for PDF conversion, log analysis, health checks, security audit, and cluster cleanup.
Cloud-native platforms on Kubernetes and microservices. Full lifecycle work across infrastructure, backend APIs, and Angular frontends for distributed product and platform teams.
- Infrastructure: Ran AWS and DigitalOcean stacks supporting distributed services, internal platforms, and multi-environment Kubernetes operations at scale.
- Kubernetes: Managed 50+ EKS and k3s clusters — VPC topology, load balancing, GitOps deploys, and security configuration across teams.
- Engineering: Delivered PHP Slim APIs, Angular UI, ArgoCD pipelines, and Grafana or Prometheus monitoring for a ten-engineer product group.
AWS and Amazon EKS for a regulated financial platform — network isolation, secrets management, compliance controls, and Angular UI for operations and reporting.
- Cloud: Designed AWS layout for a regulated platform — VPC segmentation, IAM least privilege, load balancing, and KMS-backed secrets rotation.
- EKS: Operated container workloads with namespace isolation, resource quotas, and pod security policies in every deployment environment.
- Product: Built microservice backends and Angular flows for transactions, reporting dashboards, CloudTrail logging, and compliance-ready runbooks.
Digital journalism and editorial work across CMS-driven publishing. Strong writing foundation applied to technical documentation and communication across engineering projects.
- Content: Wrote and edited long- and short-form pieces across digital channels with editorial calendars and multi-author workflow discipline.
- Web: Worked in CMS, SEO, and analytics tooling — practical exposure that accelerated the move into professional software engineering.
- Docs: Carried editorial rigor into technical writing for onboarding guides, internal runbooks, and architecture records on engineering teams.
Products
Free online PDF converter — 20+ formats including DOCX, Markdown, HTML, JSON, CSV, YAML, and images. Powered by ANNÁVE PDF Engine, open-source Go. Custom layout and pagination engine built from scratch.
- Engine: ANNÁVE PDF Engine — open-source Go. Pagination, orphan prevention, multi-format normalisation.
- Platform: Angular 21 with full SSR — prerendered per-format routes, structured SEO. Export via ANNÁVE PDF Engine; files not stored after conversion.
- Scope: Architecture, engineering, UI design, SEO, and deployment — sole engineer and product owner.
Tech: Angular · TypeScript · SSR · Go · ANNÁVE PDF Engine
Native iOS application for pet travel documentation — health records, vaccination tracking, microchip IDs, and travel-ready document management. Solo-founded, designed, and engineered. Privacy-first, local-first, no third-party analytics.
- Engineering: Swift and SwiftUI — local-first data model, privacy by design, zero cloud data retention.
- Product: End-to-end ownership — UX design, iOS development, brand identity, legal documentation, App Store pipeline.
Tech: Swift · SwiftUI · iOS · Privacy-First · Product Design
Open-source developer CLI (annavetech/annave-cli-golang) — PDF conversion, log analysis, health checks, security audit, Kubernetes cleanup, and cloud cost monitoring.
Tech: Go · CLI · Homebrew · Kubernetes · AWS
Technical Skills
Languages
English (Fluent) · Ukrainian (Native) · Russian (Native) · Turkish (Beginner)
Education
Personal
Oil painting · Knitting · Drumming · Writing · Growing plants · Organising spaces. Building PasspoPet alongside client work.