Christopher Kitras
Research Assistant at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Kitras is a Computer Engineer and PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University with nine years of hands-on experience in networking, IoT, and systems research. As a long-running research assistant and former teaching assistant at BYU, he combines academic rigor with practical implementation across full-stack development, virtualization labs, and cybersecurity internships. His work spans experimental network systems and IoT platforms, and he has applied those skills in industry settings like SUSE and a cybersecurity research internship at Riverside Research. Based in Provo, Utah, he blends deep technical curiosity with mentorship and teaching experience, often translating research prototypes into working software. An early-career researcher comfortable moving between hardware-near projects and web-facing applications, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and production-minded engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (48)
platformio9
esp82669
arduino9
esp328
broker8
eclipse7
dos-attack6
mosquitto6
network-tools5
sleep-mode5
libwebsockets5
mqtt5
heart-rate4
csharp4
iot4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NET-BYU/magic_mirror_demo
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
NET-BYU/sss
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:37 reviews, 165 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year
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