Kayla Kraines
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKayla Kraines is a Senior Cyber Security Engineer based in Baltimore with eight years of experience designing and defending complex systems at MITRE. She progressed from applied cybersecurity intern to senior engineer within the same organization, demonstrating deep institutional knowledge of threat modeling, incident response, and secure architecture for government and research clients. Her background in computer engineering (BS, UMBC) and early internships at the NSA and Northrop Grumman give her a strong foundation in secure infrastructure and data center operations. Kayla combines practical hands-on technical skill with policy-aware thinking, translating security requirements into auditable, operational controls. She is known for long‑term commitment to mission-driven work and for accelerating from intern to senior engineer by consistently delivering measurable risk reduction. Outside core duties, she brings a communications-oriented engineering perspective that helps bridge technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bais Yaakov of BaltimoreUMBC
Github Skills (11)
cybersecurity10
hacking10
security-testing10
mitre-attack10
security-automation10
emulation10
plugin8
github-issues7
defense6
github6
cyber-threat-intelligence5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/human
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Caldera plugin to deploy "humans" to emulate user behavior on systems
Contributions:6 reviews, 112 commits, 27 PRs in 8 months
caldera-pluginuser-behaviorcalderaemulate
kaylakraines/caldera
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Scalable Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
scalableadversary-emulationadversaryemulation
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