Summary
Kevin Apostol is a Security Engineer based in San Jose with nine years of technical experience and a five-year focus in IT and cybersecurity, particularly within FinTech environments. He blends site reliability engineering and incident response expertise—having led root-cause analyses and built standardized playbooks at PayPal—with hands-on software development skills in Python, Bash, React, and SQL. Kevin has improved incident resolution times through automation and Splunk-driven observability, and he’s comfortable hardening both Windows and Linux systems to CIS benchmarks. His background spans enterprise banking projects at Citi, scripting and dashboarding for security operations, and practical offensive/defensive training from Springboard, giving him a pragmatic, risk-focused approach to resilience. Notably, he pairs a formal computer science foundation and multiple intensive bootcamps with recent DevOps postgraduate work at Caltech, a combination that fuels both rapid incident handling and scalable secure engineering.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at FEU Institute of Technology
Computer Science - Coding Bootcamp, Computer Science - Coding Bootcamp at Holberton School
Coding Bootcamp Prep, Coding Bootcamp Prep at App Academy
English, tagalog (filipino)