Kenny Yokoyama
Senior Security Engineer at Human Interest
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Yokoyama is a Senior Security Engineer with a decade of experience blending offensive and defensive security across cloud, application, and operations domains. He began as a software engineer working on robotics, embedded systems, and developer tooling, and now applies that systems-level thinking to building secure, auditable platforms in regulated environments. His background at Shield AI and Human Interest spans hands-on OpSec, engineering management, and security program implementation, making him fluent in both code and policy. Beyond work, he’s a passionate educator who distills complex security topics for teams and a storyteller who’ll happily derail conversations with deep dives into Star Trek while composing music and photographing cities.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeUniversity of California, San Diego
Japanese, English
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
r2dkennobi/dotfiles
Jun 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:19 PRs, 149 pushes, 29 branches in 7 years 9 months
r2dkennobi/tpt
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
Simple function to jump from one project to another. Similar to `roscd` for ROS
Contributions:19 PRs, 23 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 3 months
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