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Kirk Larsen

24 years building and securing production systems — Linux/UNIX internals, cloud infrastructure, security & compliance, and AI-powered tooling.

About

  • Architect and secure cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) for enterprises and high-growth clients
  • Security practitioner: CISSP, AWS certified; HIPAA / PCI / SOX compliance delivery
  • Building AI-powered productivity tooling with Claude, MCP, Python, and SQLite
  • Independent consultant since 2010 via KSL Product Development
  • Open to collaborate on: security automation, infrastructure-as-code, Python tooling
  • Outside the terminal: skiing and surfing

Tech Stack

Languages

Python Shell Script C C++ TypeScript

Cloud and Infrastructure

AWS Google Cloud Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Docker

Security and Observability

Datadog Splunk SonarQube Wireguard ElasticSearch

Databases

Postgres MySQL SQLite AmazonDynamoDB Redis

Tools and CI/CD

Git GitHub Actions Jenkins Nginx Jira

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