Stephen Kraus
Staff Security Engineer at Genuine Parts Company
Snellville, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Kraus is a Staff Security Engineer with eight years of InfoSec expertise and a background stretching from avionics in the USAF to enterprise security leadership at Genuine Parts Company. He blends red-team offensive mindset with blue-team defense and pragmatic engineering, supporting detection, response, and secure infrastructure design. Stephen runs his own consultancy, Kraus Engineering, and has hands-on experience across networking, systems, and software engineering roles, enabling cross-domain threat analysis and remediation. His career path reflects deep operational discipline from military avionics paired with modern application and cloud security practices. Based in Snellville, GA, he favors practical, audit-ready solutions that balance attacker thinking with defender controls. Colleagues know him as a versatile "InfoSec jack-of-all-trades" who moves fluidly between offensive assessments and building resilient production defenses.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied Physics, Master’s Degree Applied Physics at Chattanooga State, Georgia Gwinett CollegeGeorgia Gwinnett College
Github Skills (49)
language-learning10
chrome-extension10
anki10
firefox10
dictionary10
chrome10
addon10
pinyin9
perfect9
translation9
firefox-addon9
lingvo9
kanji9
crx8
rendering8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stephenmk/yomitan-jlpt-vocab
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
JLPT level tags for words in Yomitan
Contributions:15 releases, 32 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
stephenmk/Jitendex
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:29 releases, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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