Summary
Kyle Apfel is a Technical Director with over two decades of enterprise experience and a decade-plus of hands-on software leadership, currently driving technical excellence for federal agencies including CMS and DHS. He blends pragmatic architecture, hands-on coding (Scala, Python, Java, Node/TypeScript), and cloud-native AWS engineering to deliver secure, scalable data and backend systems. Kyle has repeatedly built greenfield platforms and resilient ETL/CI-CD pipelines—turning one-off crises into robust, documented processes that shorten onboarding and reduce operational risk. He is as comfortable defining roadmaps and winning contracts as he is diving into code and mentoring leads, with a particular knack for integrating security tooling like SonarQube and Snyk into delivery pipelines. Based in Edmond, OK, he thrives on taking ambiguous federal requirements and translating them into performant, auditable systems that balance short-term needs with long-term architectural value.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Oklahoma City Community College