Evan Kohout
Senior Software Security Engineer at Synop
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Kohout is a Senior Software Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and securing platform and SRE environments across startups and large companies. He has led reliability and security work at Synop after shaping operational practices at Edge & Node and Amazon, bringing deep expertise in DevOps, automation, and system administration. Early roles managing XML gateways, federated identity, and Datapower appliances gave him a pragmatic troubleshooting mindset that complements his cloud-native tooling skills. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends an engineer’s curiosity—reflected in his GitHub persona as Engineer, Traveler, Thinker, Creator—with a track record of turning operational complexity into reliable, auditable systems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge development and operations while steadily improving security posture through pragmatic automation.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
West Virginia UniversityMorgantown High SchoolAssociate's Degree, Computer Science, Associate's Degree, Computer Science at North Seattle Community College
Github Skills (94)
custom-domain9
gatsbyjs9
stream8
tower8
paas7
rest-api7
rest7
rust7
devops7
fetch7
react7
fetch-api6
gatsby6
swagger6
cargo6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BMW-CCA-PSR/bmwccapsr-website-gatsby
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:79 commits, 18 PRs, 251 pushes in 2 years
gatsbyreactgatsbyjs
ebox86/discord-cognito-openid-wrapper
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Small shim that allows AWS Cognito to talk to discord (by providing an OpenID wrapper around the Discord API)
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apiopeniddiscordshimaws-cognito
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