Kevin Tyers
Senior Manager at SANS Institute
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Tyers is a senior security leader with 18+ years designing infrastructure, threat intelligence, and cloud security programs for technology and financial services organizations. Currently leading cloud security at GitHub, he manages a team securing 100,000+ Azure, AWS, and GCP resources while pioneering AI-driven automation that cut standard development time by 40% and automated 60% of on-call tasks. A patent holder, published researcher, and SANS instructor (SEC504/SEC502), he blends hands-on incident response and cloud architecture with program-level governance and continuous authorization for regulated customers. Previously at PayPal he built a threat intelligence platform processing millions of indicators daily, authored multiple patents, and replaced costly vendors with in-house solutions that saved seven figures. Known for shipping practical automation in Python and for moving teams from reactive operations to strategic security, he’s open to collaborating with security leaders and practitioners tackling complex cloud and intelligence problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Network Communications Managment LAN/WAN technologies Linux Statistics IP engineering, BS in Network Communications Managment LAN/WAN technologies Linux Statistics IP engineering at DevryGreenway High School
English
Github Skills (17)
ip-address9
ip9
password-strength9
artillery8
passwords8
ipv48
mac-address7
ipv67
password-generator7
protect6
cracking6
lists6
password-manager5
libc4
linux3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dagonis/syngsong
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Create Password lists for cracking lyrical passwords
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
passwordspassword-generatorpassword-managerlistspassword
dagonis/obscureV4
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Let's obscure some IPv4 addresses
Contributions:2 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
mac-addressipipv4ipv6addresses
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