Stephen Kuenzli
Founder at k9 Security
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Kuenzli is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of professional experience building resilient systems, now leading k9 Security to help cloud teams rapidly improve AWS IAM posture through clear, continuous policy improvements. He brings hands-on expertise from roles at Shutterfly and Freescale to entrepreneurial ventures (QualiMente, siWiz), blending architecture, DevOps, and QA practices to scale products and teams. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed core Gatling bugs and strengthened test suites for AngularJS projects, showing a knack for both backend reliability and front-end testability. Based in Chandler, Arizona, he combines systems engineering training with practical security tooling—favoring measurable improvements and debuggable solutions that reduce risk without slowing cloud velocity.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
testing10
loadtest10
performance-testing10
scala10
automation10
angularjs10
automations10
jasmine10
load-testing10
k10
java9
uitest9
javas9
ui-testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
simpulton/noterious
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Noterio.us - AngularJS Note Board
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:19 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on setting up a testing environment for the AngularJS application. They created unit tests for the LoginCtrl, verifying its behavior across different scenarios. The user also added a unit test to verify the security of the application's endpoint, contributing to the overall quality and robustness of the codebase. Additionally, they refactored the test setup and made sure that the vendor dependencies were correctly included in the karma configuration.
javascriptangularjsangularboard
gatling/gatling
Apr 2012 - Dec 2012
Modern Load Testing as Code
Role in this project:Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the Gatling project by implementing tests and debugging core application logic. Their work involved writing tests for statistical helper functions, ensuring data accuracy and reliability. Furthermore, the user addressed a critical bug related to simulation file discovery on Windows systems, which involved correcting file path handling and adding debug logging for enhanced troubleshooting. They also made improvements by adding the ability for users to extract additional information to request logs.
gatlingload-testingloadtestingtestingscala
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