Summary
Kirk Hardy is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data-intensive, privacy-forward systems from ETL pipelines to observability and developer tooling. He’s worked across platform and security-adjacent teams at companies like Sonatype, Jellyfish, Ethyca, and Keebo, shipping tools for license analysis, ML-driven classification, and platform observability. Comfortable in distributed systems and CI/CD with integration test suites, he bridges developer experience and production reliability. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Kirk combines a BS in Computer Science with a knack for turning compliance and privacy requirements into practical, auditable engineering solutions—a skill sharpened building the License Obligation Review Tool and privacy tooling at Ethyca.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
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