Michael Kruggel
Unicorn Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kruggel is an adaptable Unicorn Engineer with three years of post-service experience building secure, production-ready platforms and tooling. He leverages a background as a Platform Engineer in the U.S. Air Force—where he provisioned developer environments, automated OS and BIOS configuration, and migrated VM services into containerized deployments—to deliver pragmatic infrastructure solutions. As a cybersecurity consultant he helped protect and manage vulnerabilities for investment firms with over a billion dollars in assets and trained more than 1,000 staff on security best practices. Currently at Defense Unicorns he blends hands-on Linux, automation (Ansible/Chef), and scripting skills with an operator’s mindset to secure and scale mission-critical systems. Comfortable across the stack from hardware-level configuration to container orchestration, he brings a rare combination of defense-sector discipline and commercial security consulting experience.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Community College of the Air Force
Github Skills (37)
k3s10
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sbom10
atlassian10
cosign10
docker-registry10
kind10
fluent-api10
clipper10
container-cop9
jira9
devsecops9
npm9
kubernetes9
security9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
defenseunicorns/uds-package-artifactory
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
🏪 UDS Artifactory Zarf Package
Contributions:12 reviews, 49 PRs, 73 pushes in 10 months
defenseunicorns/uds-package-jenkins
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
🏪 UDS Jenkins Zarf Package
Contributions:19 reviews, 67 PRs, 166 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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