Brad Kish
Director Of Software Engineering at Valency Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBrad Kish is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11+ years of professional experience and a career spanning embedded systems to large-scale security products. Currently Director of Software Engineering at Valency, he brings deep expertise in proxy, SSL, and performance engineering developed over long tenures as Software Architect and Engineer at Arctic Wolf and Blue Coat. Brad pairs hands-on systems design with a track record of improving performance and reliability across security gateways, authentication subsystems, and tooling. He has a strong academic foundation with an MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary. After a year-long sabbatical, he returned to leadership with renewed focus on customer experience and product delivery for Carve. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers measurable impact over buzzwords.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at University of CalgaryMasters of Applied Science, Computer Engineering, Masters of Applied Science, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (46)
monitoring10
search-engine10
splunk10
java10
security10
elasticsearch10
ids10
logging10
rule10
rest9
restful9
python-bindings8
cli7
command-line-tool7
zstd6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rtkwlf/hitch
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
scalablesslproxytlstls-proxy
rtkbkish/hitch
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
scalablesslproxytlstls-proxy
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