Kenny Macdermid
Founder at NetVigil
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Macdermid is a Senior Software Developer with 24 years of experience specializing in reverse engineering, network security, and low-level systems development in C and Java. Based in Bedford, Nova Scotia, he has held senior roles at Trend Micro and Immunio and spent years analyzing threats and traffic as a research analyst at Arbor Networks. He founded and ran KMD Consulting, blending hands-on engineering with client-facing problem solving, and has deep experience in security tooling and vulnerability analysis using IDA Pro. Known for marrying pragmatic code with security research, he excels at turning complex reverse-engineering challenges into actionable defenses. His background includes early government network security work and a BSc from Dalhousie, reflecting both formal training and long-term operational experience.
25 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSCs, Computer Science, BSCs, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (200)
compression10
recording10
hardware10
container-image10
smartmeter10
command-line10
python10
nix10
sms10
backup10
meter10
sonnet10
authenticated-encryption10
ssh10
wayland10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
KenMacD/boiler
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
KenMacD/rtlamr
Jun 2019 - Mar 2025
An rtl-sdr receiver for Itron ERT compatible smart meters operating in the 900MHz ISM band.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
itronrtl-sdrsmartmeter
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