Kekoa Kaaikala
Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKekoa Kaaikala is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building user-focused software and systems, currently contributing at Akamai Technologies from Fredericksburg, VA. He spent over a decade as a scientist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, bringing a disciplined, research-driven approach to complex engineering problems and secure systems. His open-source front-end work on the well-regarded Infection Monkey adversary emulation platform highlights a practical focus on UX improvements, logging clarity, and maintainable TypeScript refactors. Kekoa blends hands-on UI development with systems-level thinking, able to translate operational security needs into intuitive interfaces. A Michigan Technological University computer science graduate, he pairs strong technical fundamentals with a track record of incremental, impactful improvements in both research and production environments. Colleagues would describe him as methodical, security-minded, and effective at turning detailed requirements into polished user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (7)
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
guardicore/monkey
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Infection Monkey - An open-source adversary emulation platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:563 reviews, 729 commits, 265 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kekoa's contributions primarily focus on the user interface (UI) development for the Infection Monkey platform. Their work involved implementing new features in the UI, such as adding timestamps to log filenames, displaying exploitation attempts, and improving the user experience. The user also refactored existing components and added new types to the frontend code to enhance the user interface, demonstrating a clear focus on frontend development tasks.
security-automationsecurity-toolspythonbugbountysecurity
cakekoa/aardwolf
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Asynchronous RDP client for Python (headless)
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 branches in 12 days
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