Kendra Ash
Security Engineer Manager - Incident Response at Datadog
United States
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Top SchoolKendra Ash is a security engineering leader with a decade of experience building incident response, compliance automation, and trust & safety programs at scale, currently managing Incident Response at Datadog. She combines hands-on engineering roots—from software and QA roles to leading security at startups—with strategic program delivery like SOC 2/HITRUST readiness, SSO rollouts, and privacy initiatives. Known for empowering teams, Kendra has repeatedly built security champion networks and crafted roadmaps that translate risk into practical controls and developer-friendly tooling. Her background in mathematics, physics, and applied web development informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to security orchestration and automation. Colleagues rely on her to coordinate cross-functional remediation under pressure while keeping long-term compliance and developer productivity aligned.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Norwich UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics and Physics at The College of IdahoRuby JavaScript Rails pair programming and web development, Ruby JavaScript Rails pair programming and web development at Epicodus
Github Skills (29)
controller9
security9
validation9
gatekeeper9
profiling9
logging9
mutation9
conftest8
datadog8
otel8
pmm8
distributed-tracing8
monitoring8
stackdriver8
opa7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kendraash/FlipItGame
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
kendraash/talks
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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