Summary
Kris K is a Staff DevSecOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience modernizing secure infrastructure for federal and commercial clients, currently at Lockheed Martin after leading platform efforts at Beacon Hill and Deloitte. He specializes in immutable infrastructure and IaC using Terraform, Packer, and Ansible across AWS, vSphere, and RHEL, and builds deployment automation and CI/CD in Go and Python to tighten security and accelerate releases. A former US Army Civil Affairs Sergeant, he brings proven operational leadership and community-focused coordination to complex, compliance-driven environments such as STIG and DoD baselines. Kris is pragmatic about tooling—having implemented Kubernetes, Vault, and GitOps patterns—and mentors teams to reduce configuration drift and harden software supply chains.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Arizona State University
Los gatos high school
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Associate of Science (AS) Computer Science, Associate of Science (AS) Computer Science at GateWay Community College