Harold Blankenship
Board Of Directors at Kithtech LLC
New Braunfels, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHarold Blankenship is a technology executive and founder with over a decade of experience modernizing infrastructure, leading open-source cybersecurity initiatives, and building high-performing teams. As a longtime steward of OWASP and founder of Kithtech LLC, he blends nonprofit governance and entrepreneurial product delivery, from migrating large web estates to secure static sites to launching mobile apps on Google Play. He has hands-on engineering chops in Python, Django, Go, Vue and containerized CI/CD, and recently developed an MCP server to bridge LLMs with application security tooling for automated vulnerability triage. Known for cutting operational overhead (65%+ in one engagement) through automation and cloud modernization, he pairs fiscal discipline with technical vision. A former Navy corpsman, he brings mission-focused leadership and meticulous compliance to board-level oversight and global community programs.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, 3.833, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity, 3.833 at New York UniversityGraduate Certificate, HIM, 4.0, Graduate Certificate, HIM, 4.0 at Texas State University-San Marcos
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Github Skills (10)
foundation10
security9
owasp9
continuous-deployment6
asp-net-mvc6
django1
kubernetes1
python1
roller1
google-cloud1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Kithwood/whaknbweb
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:205 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
hblankenship/whaknbweb
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:38 commits in 1 month
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