Keith Amidon
Co-Founder at Awake Security
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Amidon is a seasoned networking and security entrepreneur with 12+ years of leadership experience building high-performance, scalable systems and founding Awake Security to apply ML and automation to analyst-first threat detection. His career spans device-level embedded networking at McAfee and IntruVert to software-defined networking and data plane innovation at Nicira and VMware, giving him rare depth across hardware, firmware, and cloud-scale software. At Awake he helped invent a Security Knowledge Graph that reframes network entities the way investigators think, improving analyst productivity by an order of magnitude. Based in Fremont, he pairs engineering rigor from dual BSEs in electrical and computer engineering with a founder’s instinct for translating research into market-ready security products. Colleagues describe him as someone who consistently bridges deep technical credibility with product-focused execution.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Electrical Engineering, BSE Electrical Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (56)
image10
linux10
image-processing9
nix9
integrate9
nixos9
photography9
nixpkgs9
darktable9
emacs7
packet7
scrollable6
browser6
auth5
zeplin5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pack-it-forms/pack-it-forms
Mar 2014 - Oct 2018
Browser-based packet radio form entry & display
Contributions:115 commits, 15 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 years 8 months
browserpacketradiopacket-radiobrowser-based
kamidon/nixpkgs
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
nixosnix-packages
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