Kai Daguerre
Software Engineer at MonkeyPuzzled Ltd.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Daguerre is a seasoned software engineer based in London with 8 years of formal experience and over two decades of hands-on development and leadership across startups and enterprises. Currently at Turbot, he focuses on building cloud infrastructure guardrails and automation that help enterprises enforce policy at scale across multi-account AWS environments. He combines back-end and database engineering expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular Steampipe project where he extended dashboard schema and visualization capabilities—to turn complex system data into actionable interfaces. As director of MonkeyPuzzled Ltd., he also develops risk systems for large financial institutions, bringing practical security and compliance sensibilities to product design. His background spans tech lead and senior developer roles at retail and software companies, giving him a pragmatic mix of product, operations and engineering craft. Collected training in electronics and music technology from the University of York underpins a methodical, systems-oriented approach to solving ambiguous problems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Lawnswood High SchoolBEng, Electronics with Music TechnologySystems, BEng, Electronics with Music TechnologySystems at University of York
Github Skills (5)
go10
database-design9
sql8
software-design7
data-modeling7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
turbot/steampipe
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:231 releases, 616 reviews, 2264 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Kai contributed to the development of a new dashboard support feature for the `steampipe` project, focusing on explicitly declared nodes, edges, and categories within the `ModResources` structure. Their work involved significant modifications to the core functionality of the `pkg/steampipeconfig/modconfig/mod_resources.go` file, adding features to the dashboard execute and schema definition. These changes expanded the project's ability to build and render complex visual representations of system data.
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turbot/powerpipe
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Powerpipe: Dashboards for DevOps. Visualize cloud configurations. Assess security posture against a massive library of benchmarks. Build custom dashboards with code.
Contributions:79 releases, 49 reviews, 150 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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