Kevin Dienst
United States
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Top SchoolKevin Dienst is a Senior Information Security Engineer and AVP at U.S. Bank with nearly a decade in IT and six years focused squarely on security, specializing in red team operations, network security monitoring, and SIEM/NSM architecture. He designs and delivers hands-on cyber range challenges and labs that sharpen defender skills while also architecting scalable detection pipelines across AWS and Azure. Comfortable with Python, PowerShell, and DevOps tooling, he has driven detection product work at FireEye and expanded enterprise telemetry and packet ingestion programs at scale. Kevin blends strategic architecture with day-to-day threat hunting and automation, often serving as the level‑3 escalation SME for incident response teams. Based in Minneapolis, he brings curiosity, tenacity, and a user-focused mission to create secure systems that enable others to succeed. A practical tinkerer with both offensive and defensive experience, he uniquely translates red-team insights into pragmatic detection engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Security, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Security at ITT Technical InstituteHigh School, High School at John F. Kennedy Senior High School
English
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Github Skills (85)
windows10
security10
aiohttp-client10
sysinternals10
elasticsearch10
aiohttp10
monitoring10
splunk10
firefox10
ids10
websocket-client10
threat-hunting10
rule10
blocker10
localhost10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
axi0m/axi0m
Jan 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 24 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 4 months
axi0m/skynet-bot
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
A bot for use in Slack - Helpful admin bot
Contributions:47 PRs, 115 pushes, 99 branches in 9 months
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