Kevin Nisbet
Software Engineer at Defakto Security
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarKevin Nisbet is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams across cloud-native and security-focused companies. He has held progressive technical and leadership roles at Teleport—ranging from DevOps to Director of Software Engineering—and most recently joined Defakto Security after contributing to product engineering at Freshpaint. Kevin’s hands-on backend and DevOps work includes meaningful open-source contributions to the gravitational/gravity project, where he improved TLS/mTLS handling, networking, and deployment automation for regulated or remote Kubernetes environments. He combines a strong operational background from roles at ecobee and Bell Mobility with a security-first mindset, often tackling infrastructure, identity, and certificate challenges. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions that bridge engineering, security, and deployment. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, he brings both leadership experience and deep implementation chops to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
terraform9
networking9
terraformer9
deploying8
package8
hybrid-cloud8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/gravity
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Kubernetes application deployments for restricted, regulated or remote environments.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:62 releases, 221 reviews, 59 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the core system's infrastructure and security enhancements, including modifying TLS certificate handling, and implementing mTLS for planet monitoring. They worked on updating and refactoring several core files related to networking, security and general system setup. Additionally, they contributed to the build and deployment processes, with changes to the terraform provider publishing and added a health check endpoint.
devopsdockerregulatedrestrictedk8s
gravitational/wormhole
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Wireguard based overlay network CNI plugin for kubernetes
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
overlay-networkvpnwireguardoverlaykubernetes
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