Kent Hawk
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Hawk is a seasoned software engineer with nearly three decades of development experience and a proven track record leading teams to deliver production-grade, cryptographically secure systems. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he has led large engineering organizations and embedded/real-time projects—from designing distributed authentication and billing systems that scaled millions of users to building multi-threaded monitoring services that recovered six-figure monthly revenue. More recently he led a team producing reference implementations for new crypto protocols and contributed substantive cryptographic and refactoring work to the open-source lavabit/magma project. Equally comfortable in low-level C and embedded environments as in modern CI-driven development, he blends deep systems expertise with practical product outcomes. An avid tinkerer, he applies engineering rigor to hobbies like automated microcontroller-controlled greenhouse systems, reflecting a hands-on curiosity that informs his professional work.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinFriendswood
Github Skills (8)
c1710
c1110
cryptography10
encryption9
smtps9
smtp9
smtpd9
imap7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lavabit/magma
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
The magma server daemon, is an encrypted email system with support for SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP and MOLTEN,. Additional support for DMTP and DMAP is currently in active development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 20 days
Contributions summary:Kent primarily focused on code style improvements and bug fixes within the `magma` project. They addressed an error in the logging levels and implemented style modifications based on coding standards. The user also contributed to refactoring and applying coding standards to the `hmac` and `stacie` related code. They actively worked on the STACIE-related cryptographic code, including significant changes to the `stacie` implementation.
e-mailimapsmtpmagmawebmail
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