Kevin Hendricks
Head Of Incident Response at SpearTip
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hendricks is a Threat Hunt Tech Lead for North America with 11 years of hands-on cybersecurity and incident response experience across insurance, semiconductor, energy, and government sectors. He blends technical leadership and active threat hunting at Zurich North America with a practical engineering mindset honed at Micron, Idaho Power, and the FERC. Kevin pairs an MBA in Information Assurance with full-stack development experience and notable open-source contributions—helping improve projects like the popular gumbo-parser and the KindleUnpack toolkit, where he tackled parsing edge cases and encoding robustness. He’s comfortable shipping cross-platform fixes and refactors, evidenced by UI and reliability work on the Sigil EPUB editor. Based in the Boise area, he also taught online courses, signaling an ability to communicate complex security topics to diverse audiences. A detail-oriented problem solver, he often surfaces subtle format and encoding issues that others miss, improving both detection fidelity and tool reliability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Information Assurance, MBA Information Assurance at Idaho State UniversityBrigham Young University-Idaho
Github Skills (15)
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front-end-development10
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qt10
python10
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encoding9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Sigil-Ebook/Sigil
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1 review, 2387 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin was responsible for implementing new features related to the index toolbar, including additions to the main window and the integration of index-editing features within the ebook editor. They also addressed a bug that occurred when closing a parent widget during the QMenu exec() on macOS and similar platforms. The changes involved significant refactoring and code cleanups to improve code maintainability and address compatibility issues with various operating systems and platforms.
epub
kevinhendricks/KindleUnpack
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
python based software to unpack Amazon / Kindlegen generated ebooks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 14 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the functionality of the kindleunpack project, which unpacks Kindle ebooks. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to handling specific ebook formats, specifically addressing issues with Furigana EXTH values and language code detection. They implemented enhancements, such as adding extraction of title information and updating the tool to be robust to encoding errors. Furthermore, the user modified the code to support fixed-layout MOBI files and the NCX for EPUBs.
kindlegenpython
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