McKittrick Kaminski

mckittrick.kaminski@gmail.com|mckamyk|McKamyk

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

Experience

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

Projects

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

Technical Skills

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

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

Certifications