Kevin Dienst
Senior Information Security Engineer - Assistant Vice President At U.S. Bank
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Dienst is a Senior Information Security Engineer and AVP at U.S. Bank with nearly a decade in IT and six years focused squarely on security, specializing in red team operations, network security monitoring, and SIEM/NSM architecture. He designs and delivers hands-on cyber range challenges and labs that sharpen defender skills while also architecting scalable detection pipelines across AWS and Azure. Comfortable with Python, PowerShell, and DevOps tooling, he has driven detection product work at FireEye and expanded enterprise telemetry and packet ingestion programs at scale. Kevin blends strategic architecture with day-to-day threat hunting and automation, often serving as the level‑3 escalation SME for incident response teams. Based in Minneapolis, he brings curiosity, tenacity, and a user-focused mission to create secure systems that enable others to succeed. A practical tinkerer with both offensive and defensive experience, he uniquely translates red-team insights into pragmatic detection engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Systems Security, Bachelor of Science Information Systems Security at ITT Technical InstituteHigh School, High School at John F. Kennedy Senior High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
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Github contributions (5)
axi0m/hexecutable
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
Public repository for static website hosting
Contributions:12 PRs, 38 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 11 months
hostingpublic-repositorypythonhugowebsite-hosting
axi0m/skynet-bot
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
A bot for use in Slack - Helpful admin bot
Contributions:47 PRs, 115 pushes, 99 branches in 9 months
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