Kyle Burkhardt
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Southwest Airlines
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKyle Burkhardt is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer based in the Salt Lake City area with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, migrating, and hardening identity and access management systems. He has led large-scale IAM transformations—migrating CA Siteminder to ForgeRock Access Manager and NetIQ IDM to ForgeRock IDM—supporting thousands of users and dozens of SAML partners. His work spans federation, MFA journeys (WebAuthn, push, SMS, RSA), directory sync across AD/eDirectory/Google/RSA/HR systems, and CI/CD tooling introduction in legacy environments. At the State of Utah he modernized authentication for 15,000+ employees; he now applies that operational rigor to aviation-grade security at Southwest Airlines. Colleagues rely on him for bridging deep protocol knowledge with practical migration plans that minimize user impact. Outside of work he has a long history of technical leadership in community projects and hands-on systems repair that keep his troubleshooting skills sharp.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bacta/cu-archive
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:19 commits in 11 days
kyleburkhardt/steerio
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 4 months
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