Christopher Kies
Staff Software Engineer at Contrast Security
City of Utica, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Kies is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in JVM internals, application security, and low-level systems with over a decade of experience building mission-critical secure systems and instrumentation. At Contrast Security he designs real-time RASP/IAST agents and cross-vendor JVM instrumentation that balance deep bytecode analysis with production performance, having optimized JIT behavior down to assembly for multiple architectures. Previously he led embedded and constrained-network projects at Peraton, applying reverse engineering and bytecode manipulation to outperform legacy frameworks and enable secure, bandwidth-efficient systems. A lifelong builder who started coding on a Commodore 64, he also designs hobbyist PCBs and prototypes eBPF observability tools, reflecting a practical mix of hardware curiosity and systems-level software craftsmanship. Based in Utica, NY, he blends ethical-hacking validation with large-scale test infrastructure and a track record of shipping nuanced security tooling across diverse Java ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (29)
contrast9
macros8
java-agent8
opencensus8
sdk8
instrumentation8
java8
nim-lang8
security7
gwt7
ada7
metaprogramming7
procedural7
opentelemetry6
overhead6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
argonotix/sjia
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
argonotix/opendbc
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
democratize access to car decoder rings
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 days
decodercarrings
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