Yara Maalainine

Yara Maalainine has worked in various positions in the field of technology and engineering. Yara is currently employed at Bakkt as the Senior Director of SRE/DevOps and has been in this role since December 2021. Prior to that, they held the position of Director of SRE at Bakkt starting from January 2021. Before joining Bakkt, Yara worked at RobustWealth as the Director of Engineering from October 2018 to January 2021. Yara also served as the Director of IT at GreenSlate from April 2008 to October 2018. Yara's earliest work experience was as a System & Network Administrator at Ecozine from March 2003 to September 2007. In this role, their responsibilities included provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems/network hardware and software, as well as participating in technical research and development.

Yara Maalainine began their education at Ecole Sud D'informatique from 2003 to 2005, where they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering. Yara later attended Anthem Institute NYC from 2008 to 2009, earning an Associate degree in Computer Networking and Security.