McKittrick Kaminski

Education

University of Memphis
B.Sc. Computer Science
2014 – 2018

Concentration in Security
President of CompSci club, helping students network amongst themselves and industry
Founder of Null Testers, a security-focused hackathon and CTF group
Lead Null Testers to win multiple competitions and receive national recognition
Assisted in Doctoral Research project funded by NSA exploring Biometric Authentication and Genetic Algorithms
Maintained University's CompSec labs' infrastructure and CMS systems

Doggy Fi
Lead Software Engineer
Remote
Feb 2024 – Present

Lead a small team of remote engineers and collected metrics on productivity and roadmap planning
Architected and build Dogecoin Automated Market Maker
Managed AWS infrastructure including Lambda, Cloudfront, Fargate, S3, Route53, and Cloudwatch
Coordinated with API providers to shape their APIs for solving solutions to help build our product
Deployed Sentry and Posthog analytics to monitor conversions, hot paths, errors, and usage
Built a test product leveraging Cloudflare's stack of Workers, Durable Objects, and Containers

Phoenix Cyber
Software Engineer
Remote
Oct 2020 – Feb 2024

Designed infrastructure to deliver and maintain micro-webapps using Web Components and React
Created deployment pipelines for several applications with varying structures
Managed AWS resources on EKS, ECR, EC2 and involved development infrastructure
Assisted infrastructure team in diagnosing and fixing issues

Methodist Healthcare
Security Analyst
Memphis, TN
Dec 2018 – Oct 2020

Monitored and adjusted SIEM for daily alerts and investigated events and incidents
Deployed WEF logging across the enterprise to collect Windows device logs
Built an internal investigation tool to expedite event determination and reduce time spent on false positives

Open Source Contributor

Contributed to several Open Source projects including Arktype, TanStack, and SST
Actively suggest patches for open source software that I use for issues/features I have

DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Pulumi, Cloudflare, CI/CD

Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Bun, Agentic, Hono, Wrangler, SST, Biome, Golang