Kai Herrera
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Herrera is a CEO and founder with eight years of technical and entrepreneurial experience building security-focused cloud infrastructure and AI-driven content businesses from Columbus, Ohio. He led large-scale security programs at NetJets—managing a 14TB/month security data pipeline and negotiating multi-million dollar vendor engagements—while contributing infrastructure and security work to the open-source Matano security data lake. As co-founder of Intertwine HQ he combines hands-on product delivery with revenue ownership for multi-location healthcare clients, and his newest venture, LoreKit, applies that systems approach to scale AI video production for brands. Trained in philosophy, logic, and computer science at Ohio State, Kai blends strategic vendor and team leadership with low-level cloud and detection engineering expertise, often surfacing technical solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Logic, Computer Science, Language, Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Logic, Computer Science, Language at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (20)
cloud-infrastructure10
security10
aws10
rust10
cloud-services10
cloud-native10
amazon-sqs9
aws-sqs-fifo9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
s3-bucket9
serverless9
logging8
big-data8
cybersecurity8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matanolabs/matano
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer & Security Engineer
Cloud Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily focused on infrastructure and security-related tasks within the Matano project. Their contributions include setting up private S3 buckets, implementing SQS ingestion pipelines, and configuring Athena workgroups. They also added functionality for SQS ingestion metadata and CSV file ingest support. The user also worked on decoding S3 keys for correct object retrieval.
secopsdfirserverlessloggingcloud-security
kai-ten/matano
Oct 2022 - May 2023
The open-source security lake platform for AWS
Contributions:34 pushes, 30 branches in 6 months
lakesecurityopen-source-securityaws
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