Kirk Peterson
Lead Engineer - Security at Extend
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Peterson is a seasoned engineering leader based in Portland with over 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure SaaS and PaaS systems and more than two decades in software engineering overall. As Lead Engineer for Security at Extend and former Principal Architect at Nike, he designs pragmatic solutions for secrets and key management, data protection, and identity/access at enterprise scale while driving incident response and compliance efforts. He excels at taking products from PoC to highly available cloud deployments, having done so at Tozny and multiple platform teams, and mentors engineers to adopt security-by-design practices. Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from low-level system design to operational automation—he pairs deep technical breadth with a steady track record of delivering auditable, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (41)
duplicates9
proc-macro9
cat9
log-in7
aeson7
serde7
axum6
tower6
integrate4
factor4
factor-authentication4
uuid4
crate4
wordpress-plugin3
rust-language3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tozny/simplesamlphp-ldap-tozny
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
tozny/toznyauth-wordpress
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 9 pushes, 6 tags in 1 year
securephoneauthentication-systemcryptographically-securewordpress
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