KC Berg
Chief Architect at StackHawk
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorKC Berg is a seasoned Chief Architect with over a decade of experience designing networked and security-focused software, currently leading architecture at StackHawk. His career spans senior and leadership roles from startups to large carriers—co-founding JumpCloud, serving as CTO at ThreatWave, and building security research tools at Level 3—demonstrating deep expertise in IDS/IPS, VPNs, identity management, and Linux-based network services. KC combines hands-on coding in Java/C and JavaScript with systems-level know-how across databases, virtualization, and big data (MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop), enabling pragmatic solutions to complex infrastructure problems. Known for turning open-source building blocks into production-grade security platforms, he emphasizes creative, scalable designs rather than reinventing the wheel. Based in the Denver area, he brings a practical, research-informed approach to architecting resilient, internet-scale security systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,219reputation
579kreached
15answers
0questions
mongodb
top-5%
mongoose
top-5%
linux
top-5%
Github Skills (97)
web-application10
security10
charts10
owasp10
helm10
kubernetes10
security-scanner10
zap10
zaproxy10
mongoose9
linux9
api9
jwt-authentication9
spring9
java9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kcberg/zap-extensions
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
OWASP ZAP Add-ons
Contributions:4 PRs, 63 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
owasp-zapsecurity-toolsadd-onssecurityowasp
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