Kaitlin S
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaitlin S is a Senior Software Engineer and cybersecurity practitioner with 13 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems across startups, research labs, and freelance engagements. She combines applied cryptography and trusted computing expertise from Johns Hopkins APL with practical product work at Enveil, where she helped deliver ZeroReveal® Search features and improved engineering workflows. Currently leading efforts at Ginger Cybersecurity, she develops hardened microVMs to raise isolation and runtime security while also supporting customer success and developer relations. Kaitlin is an active open-source contributor to foundational cloud projects like OpenStack Cinder, where she fixed encryption-related bugs and modernized key management. Equally comfortable shipping client-facing web apps as a freelancer, she focuses on maintainable solutions that nontechnical teams can operate. Her background blends rigorous academic training (M.S. in Computer Science) with hands-on cryptographic engineering and a knack for translating research into deployable security products.
13 years of coding experience
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (8)
openstack10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
encryption10
python10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Aug 2013 - Oct 2017
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kaitlin contributed to the OpenStack Cinder project by fixing bugs related to encrypted volume deletion and key management. They addressed issues preventing the deletion of encrypted volumes by correcting parameter usage and implementing unit tests. Furthermore, the user enhanced key management by specifying key algorithms and sizes during key creation. Additionally, they replaced the deprecated key manager code with Castellan.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
openstack/castellan-ui
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 commits in 9 months
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