Kenneth Wilke
Security Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco Meraki
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Wilke is a Security Engineering Technical Leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building and securing cloud and backend systems, currently leading security engineering at Cisco Meraki. He blends software and hardware expertise—spanning Linux-first development, cloud platform design, security consulting, and embedded/FPGA tinkering—to deliver pragmatic, resilient systems. Kenneth is an active open-source contributor (notably adding robust TCP proxy and signal handling examples to the luvit/luvit project), and prefers building on established open ecosystems when possible. His career traces progressive roles from operations and software engineering at Rackspace to senior security consulting and platform engineering, reflecting deep cross-domain fluency. Outside work he pursues retrocomputing, 3D printing and crude robotics, bringing a maker’s curiosity to production-grade security solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
FAA Remote Pilot Certification, FAA Remote Pilot Certification at Pilot InstituteBachelor of Science - BS Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Development at Western Governors UniversityNew Braunfels High School
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Github Skills (16)
asynchronous10
json10
lua10
luajit10
libuv10
tcp-socket10
flask10
async10
python9
telnet6
socket6
pingdom6
atomic6
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Github contributions (5)
luvit/luvit
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to the `luvit/luvit` repository by adding examples of TCP proxy server and echo server implementations. These examples leveraged the `uv` library for asynchronous I/O operations. Further improvements were made to the proxy example, including error handling and closing TCP sockets. The user also introduced a signal handler example using the `uv` library.
luajitluvitlibuvluajit
KennethWilke/PingdomLib
Oct 2012 - May 2017
A python library to consume the pingdom API
Contributions:5 releases, 37 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 8 months
python-libraryapipingdompythonpingdom-api
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