Kai Dragomir
Penetration Tester
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Dragomir is a penetration tester with nine years of hands-on experience across cybersecurity, backend engineering, and systems modernization, currently focused on offensive security at Astrion. He has a track record of hardening web and embedded systems—implementing WAFs, conducting red-team style pentests, reverse engineering firmware, and building automation and tooling from his time at Payload, Northrop Grumman, and JT4. Kai bridges practical security with software delivery, having refactored legacy SQL, rearchitected monoliths, and written test automation and APIs for aerospace and commercial products. His background blends formal cyberforensics and counterterrorism training with applied engineering (experience across RedHat, Debian, FreeBSD, Windows and tools like Ghidra/IDA Pro), giving him an unusual ability to trace vulnerabilities from low-level firmware to cloud services. Outside work he pursues extreme hobbies—from skydiving and piloting to fencing and archery—reflecting a taste for disciplined risk-taking that informs his adversarial mindset.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Bachelor of Science - BS Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism at College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the University of CincinnatiBachelor of Science - BS Philosophy, Bachelor of Science - BS Philosophy at University of Cincinnati College of Arts and SciencesComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Cincinnati - College of Engineering and Applied Science
English, French
Github Skills (6)
charts7
kubernetes6
helm6
security4
package-manager3
privacy3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kdragomir/Curtain
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:65 commits, 7 PRs, 49 pushes in 6 months
securityprivacy
kdragomir/OpenLabVR
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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