Kyle Haefner
Principal Security Architect at CableLabs
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Haefner is a Principal Security Architect at CableLabs with 11 years of experience focused on AI safety, IoT security, DDoS information sharing, and network/database protection. He combines deep research credentials—a PhD and MS in Computer Science and a BS in Electrical Engineering—with hands-on architecture and engineering roles across CableLabs and academia. Kyle has led security working groups at the Open Connectivity Foundation and co-chairs AI/ML anti-abuse efforts at M3AAWG, bridging standards, research, and operational defense. His dissertation on unsupervised models of IoT device behavior informs practical threat detection work and IoT threat modeling. A former Peace Corps IT advisor in Jamaica, he brings cross-cultural technical leadership and multilingual communication (Spanish, French, learning German). He pairs rigorous academic thinking with pragmatic security design for large-scale networks and emerging AI-enabled systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wyoming
English, Spanish, French, German
Github Skills (58)
stack10
decoding10
digital-signal-processing10
arduino-library10
coap9
mp39
sd-card9
ssl9
recorder9
artifacts9
reference-implementation9
encoding9
iot-platform9
aac9
audio9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openconnectivityfoundation/OCF-Security-Baseline-Mapping
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:65 PRs, 163 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 4 months
khaefner/queue-view
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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