Kirk Schaper
Senior Security Engineer at Clever Inc.
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Schaper is a Senior Security Engineer with 11 years of experience leading teams to build secure, high-impact software and authentication systems. He led development at VolunteerMatch, scaling the web’s largest volunteer engagement network to connect over 16 million volunteers and supporting corporate programs and API integrations for 100+ customers. Kirk has shipped authentication and encryption solutions for thousands of enterprise customers and participated directly in security audits tied to multimillion-dollar contracts. His background spans mobile authenticators, PKI research, and full-stack Java web development (Spring/Hibernate/MySQL), reflecting both hands-on engineering and technical leadership. Based in Walnut Creek, he combines product-focused delivery with deep applied security expertise and a proven record of converting complex security requirements into practical, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
credential-storage9
credstash9
key-management8
callisto8
escrow8
intake7
security7
matching7
graphviz6
api6
conventions6
policies6
django6
command-line-tool5
rest5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
volunteermatch/email-stats
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
ktschap/ktschap.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
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