Kay Avila
Security Engineer at Urbana Theological Seminary
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKay Avila is a Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience across network engineering, Linux system administration, and cybersecurity, currently supporting ESnet after senior roles at NCSA and Transamerica. She combines deep firewall management expertise with Python-driven web tooling to streamline security operations and troubleshooting across teams. Her background in both customer-facing IT support and high-performance research networking gives her a practical edge when evaluating solutions and improving processes. Based in Urbana, Illinois, she pairs steady operational discipline with a curiosity for new skills and cross-functional collaboration, and she continues to contribute time to community tech through volunteer IT coordination.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at University of Northern IowaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (54)
fpm9
cac9
capi8
rsa8
data-journalism7
smartcard7
ecdsa7
putty7
fips6
ssh6
apk6
passwords6
archlinux6
packager6
security6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wheeendiii/2021Fall_finals
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:79 pushes in 4 months
trustedci/apache_log_simulator
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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