Cole Kennedy
Founding CEO at TestifySec
Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Kennedy is a founding CEO and software supply chain security expert with 11 years of engineering and DevSecOps experience, leading TestifySec to deliver attestation-driven SaaS and open-source tools for supply chain integrity. A former Director of Defense Initiatives who built BoxBoat’s federal practice through acquisition, he combines hands-on engineering (Naval Research Lab, Novetta) with strategic security leadership for critical infrastructure and intelligence customers. As an in-toto Steering Committee member he helps shape attestation standards and governance, bringing rare product-to-spec expertise in software provenance. His decade-plus military service as an Infantry NCO and combat veteran informs a disciplined, mission-focused approach to risk and team leadership. He publishes and presents on supply chain best practices and designs data models that ensure signed, auditable attestations without sacrificing operational agility. Based in Huntsville, Cole blends startup grit, federal-scale program delivery, and open collaboration to make software supply chains more transparent and trustworthy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at University of MinnesotaBachelor's of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Computer Science Computer Science at Fayetteville State University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
rego10
3d10
gltf10
chain10
snapcraft10
playback10
tekton-pipelines10
goreleaser10
oauth10
devsecops10
wireguard10
registers10
bun10
stream10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
colek42/streamingDemo
Dec 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
colek42/TrackIt
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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