Calvin Krist
Software Engineer at Corsha
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Krist is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building backend, infrastructure, and security-focused systems from research prototypes to production services. Currently at Corsha, he develops edge proxies and firewalls while previously architecting cloud platforms and microservice frameworks that drastically reduced CI/CD and deploy times at Appian. His background spans Windows EDR and active defense (notably contributing a WMI wrapper, ETW monitoring, and gRPC integrations to the open-source BLUESPAWN project), real-time ML research for drones, and containerized testing pipelines. Comfortable across C++, Java, and cloud-native tooling, he blends hands-on engineering with security awareness to deliver reliable, testable, and scalable systems. Colleagues describe him as continually learning and focused on practical solutions that speed delivery without sacrificing observability or safety.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (13)
etw10
c-language10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
trace10
winapi10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
wp-api10
grpc10
wmi10
security10
windows9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ION28/BLUESPAWN
Jun 2019 - May 2020
An Active Defense and EDR software to empower Blue Teams
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:2 releases, 73 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Calvin's primary contribution involves implementing a WMI wrapper, exporting it as a DLL, which is likely core functionality within the active defense software. They also added features for logging and server reactions, indicating a focus on event handling and response capabilities. Further, the user integrated gRPC and protobuf files, suggesting efforts to build a networked and potentially distributed architecture for the security tool. Finally, there is the implementation of ETW monitoring, including integration with providers and an initial basic system to collect system level details.
security-toolsbluewindowsactive-defensesecurity
CalvinKrist/ProjectBrightSun
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
A suite of cybersecurity tools designed to allow for rapid deployment of virtualized environments. Intended for use in education: contains built-in lessons.
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 89 pushes in 5 months
rapid-deploymentdeploymentsecurityvirtualizedcybersecurity
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