Kirk Watson
Co-Founder at SickFade
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKirk Watson is a cybersecurity-focused engineer and Co-Founder with six years of experience bridging technical delivery and risk oversight across financial and enterprise environments. With dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from SMU and hands-on experience at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, he has assessed IT and cyber risk for dozens of institutions and maintained production ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark, AWS and Databricks. His master's-level study in Telecommunications and Cybersecurity complements practical roles that ranged from technology risk analysis to data engineering, giving him a rare blend of regulatory insight and data infrastructure skills. At Lumen he confronted the complexity of real-world enterprise security stacks, and now as a founder he applies that operational perspective to building secure, resilient systems. Dallas-based and always curious, he combines analytical rigor with an eagerness to learn emerging defensive techniques and improve organizational security posture. Notably, his background spans both offensive-style threat research and defensive engineering, enabling him to translate threat trends into actionable controls.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github contributions (5)
kirkwat/prim-and-kruskal
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
thannansmu/dbui_group3
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:99 commits, 48 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 month
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