Kiesia Carmine
Senior Security Engineer at Zendesk
Berlin, Australia
Summary
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RockstarKiesia Carmine is a Senior Security Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building reliable, secure systems across product, infrastructure, and reliability domains. Currently leading security efforts at Zendesk, she progressed through product and operations security roles, blending hands-on engineering with threat mitigation and secure product delivery. Her background spans full-stack and DevOps work at Sendle and Enspiral, giving her deep empathy for developers and practical experience securing CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and distributed services. An active contributor to open-source projects, she improved testing and submission workflows for the widely used Refuge Restrooms Rails app, showing attention to user-centered features and test reliability. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who simplifies complex workflows while removing risky or destructive operations. She brings a rare mix of long-term web development roots and modern security craftsmanship focused on shipping safe, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
German
Github Skills (11)
webmock10
cucumber10
rspec10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
testing10
devise8
rest-api7
github5
lgbt4
transgender4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms
Apr 2014 - Feb 2015
REFUGE restrooms indexes and maps safe restroom locations for trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kiesia made several contributions to the Rails-based application, focusing on improving the testing and functionality of the restroom locator. They updated testing infrastructure by stubbing web requests and adding Webmock for RSpec, enhancing the reliability of the test suite. Additionally, the user modified routes, configurations, and submission scenarios, including removing destructive actions and simplifying submission workflows. These actions demonstrate an active role in refining the application's features and underlying structure.
safe-restroomsrestroomsindexeslgbtintersex
queeraid/queeraid.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Landing Page for Queer Aid Naarm
Contributions:15 PRs, 54 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
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