Kirk K
Co-Founder at Strix Labs LLC
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk K is a hands-on tech founder and systems engineer with nearly a decade of professional experience and 20 years of technical exposure, blending Linux, DevOps, cyber security, and GIS expertise. As Co-Founder of Strix Labs and a former Elastic security curriculum architect, he builds and automates training and detection platforms, cutting lab build times from days to under an hour and rapidly patching critical vulnerabilities. His background as an aircraft mechanic turned "server mechanic" informs a practical, reliability-first approach to platform engineering, threat intel, and field-deployable toolkits like ROCK NSM and CAPES. He has designed AWS and ELK-based systems to analyze hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and network events, and led multi-state National Guard cyber teams to protect critical infrastructure. Based in the Kansas City area, he pairs low-level systems troubleshooting with curriculum development and a knack for turning operational lessons into scalable, repeatable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Missouri Western State UniversityAssociates, Associates at Community College of the Air ForceOffensive and Defensive Cyber Operations, Offensive and Defensive Cyber Operations at FED VTESavannah High
Github Skills (52)
automated-deployment10
rhel10
suricata9
zeek9
docker9
fleet9
elastic8
django8
gis8
atomic8
security7
geoserver7
wfs7
python7
threat-hunting7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
koelslaw/FARCE
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
koelslaw/Info
Jul 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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