Calvin Smoot
Co-Founder And IT Lead at Kayak Cyber
Yukon, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolCalvin Smoot is a cybersecurity-minded software engineer and co-founder with eight years of experience building secure, scalable systems across enterprise and startup environments. As Co-Founder and IT Lead at Kayak Cyber and a former Third Party IT Security Analyst and software developer at General Motors, he blends hands-on full-stack development (JavaScript, Java, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) with practical security operations like IDS deployment and Fortify static scans. He has driven measurable improvements—accelerating delivery by 17%, achieving 100% static scan compliance, and boosting accessibility coverage by 90%—while managing hybrid on-prem/cloud infrastructures and cross-border domains. Comfortable both leading migrations (Skype to Teams with <1% downtime) and automating ops (PDQ, PowerShell, bash), he focuses on reducing complexity and embedding security into the SDLC. Based in Yukon, Oklahoma, he pairs a Master’s-focused background in information security with a talent for translating security needs into developer-friendly practices.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityBrigham Young University-Idaho
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Github Skills (10)
barrage10
router6
static-site6
jekyll4
mouse3
rest-api1
javascript1
api1
ssg1
nodejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
XeoSpheric/cs-home
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
XeoSpheric/swapi
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
SWAPI - Star Wars API service
Contributions:5 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
apiswapiwarsnodejsstar-wars-api
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