Summary
Kyhle Ohlinger is a Staff Security Engineer and advisory board member for Google Security Operations with 11 years of experience building pragmatic detection and response across GCP, AWS, and hybrid environments. She specializes in turning messy investigations into repeatable, automated systems that scale, with work frequently shared as tools, scripts, and detection ideas on GitHub. Her background spans consulting, MSSP detection engineering, and cloud security research, giving her a measurable, fundamentals-first approach to hard problems. Kyhle’s leadership focuses on removing friction, creating clarity, and empowering teams to operate confidently under uncertainty. Based in Old Toronto, she combines hands-on engineering with product-minded strategy, helping organizations make cloud-first security both practical and reproducible.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Northwood High
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours, Computer Science at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans