Kai Lieth
Software Engineer at Gusto
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Lieth is a software engineer based in San Francisco with five years of experience building security-focused infrastructure and developer tooling at companies like Square, Apollo GraphQL, Rippling, and Gusto. He has driven multi-team platform migrations, designed internal auth and SSO systems, and led projects that improved developer efficiency and security posture across large organizations. Comfortable both hands-on and in technical leadership, Kai has a track record of turning complex security requirements into practical, auditable systems and mentoring teams through redesigns. He’s particularly interested in roles bridging software development and management, and often seeks collaborative projects that improve product quality and developer experience.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (75)
ftp9
kotlin-multiplatform9
keychain9
rust9
websocket9
sftp9
strongly-typed9
kotlin9
robot9
curl9
ldap9
scp9
apollographql8
hsm8
ftps8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kaisq/secrets
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Secure storage for cryptographic secrets in Rust
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
securecryptographyshamir-secret-sharingsecure-storagerust
kaisq/rust-security-framework
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Bindings to the macOS Security.framework
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
security-frameworkmacossecuritymacos-security
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