Kyle Cook
Senior Security Tooling Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Cook is a Senior Security Tooling Engineer with 11 years of software and security experience, currently combining in-house engineering at Rivian/Volkswagen Group Technologies with PhD research at the University of Tulsa. He specializes in security integration and tooling for automotive and embedded systems, and his doctoral work explores using the Berkeley Packet Filter to enforce in-kernel network security policies—bridging low-level kernel mechanisms with practical enterprise security needs. Kyle has a steady progression from software developer to security roles and also shares knowledge as an adjunct instructor and long-time research assistant, reflecting both hands-on delivery and academic rigor. Based in Tulsa, he brings a rare mix of production security engineering and active systems research, making him adept at turning novel kernel ideas into deployable security tooling.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at The University of Tulsa
Github Skills (36)
statusbar9
x119
window-manager9
flask9
cpp9
homebrew8
linux8
security8
ctf8
symlink7
asdf7
attack-defense7
ffmpeg7
screen-capture6
live-streaming6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kylecook80/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 127 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
dotfilespersonal-dotfilesvimzsh
kylecook80/pascal-compiler
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
compilerpascalprogramming-languagecompiler-construction
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