About Kevin
“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
— IBM
Beginnings
I started off my career young. Very young. My father had been working in IT since the 90s when SunTrust was SunBank. Soon after I was born he moved to BankUnited. There wasn't a day in my young life where I wasn't learning how to use a computer and how our home networking worked. I remember the days of our family Compaq laptop with a WiFi card and connecting to our old Netgear router on AT&T DSL.
My dad and I would play cat and mouse, he would set up parental controls and I'd always circumvent them. In Kindergarten I bypassed Miami-Dade County Public Schools' firewalls to play games on Nickelodeon's iCarly website. I had to show administrators how I'd done it. I'd bypass school filters throughout my K-12 schooling just to get work done when they blocked my workflows.
Career
In Junior year of High School, I signed up for an internship and was matched with Neighbors 4 Neighbors, a local nonprofit organization that worked with Miami CBS 4 to connect people in need with people who can help. What was supposed to be a summer internship turned into a three and a half year job that catapulted my career forward in ways I never could have expected.
I was able to do great work for the community, editing advertisements for fundraising after natural disasters, making sure the organization could communicate effectively with partners and the public, and working on a web application to connect families in need with donors who could help during the holiday season. It was extremely rewarding work.
Moving into Tech
After my time at Neighbors 4 Neighbors, I was recruited for an opportunity at one of Miami's fastest-growing startups. In 2022, I joined OpenStore (now Jack Archer) as their first IT hire and tasked with setting up and securing the company's disparate systems, put up together in haste after a year of scaling from fewer than five employees to 40. There I'd learn most of what I've mastered: SSO and IDP systems, device management, permission structures, office networking and security, and asset management just to name a few. Over the two and a half years I worked at OpenStore, I onboarded more than 200 employees and fully fleshed out a corporate tech stack.
In 2024, my dream to move to Washington, DC became a reality. I was hired at Armis (acquired by ServiceNow) in April 2024 as the Principal IT & Security Engineer for the US, leading Armis' FedRAMP IT & Security system architecture as the company uplifted its environment from FedRAMP Moderate to High and its DoD Impact Level 4 to Level 5. I was challenged with connecting previously disjointed systems together to write a clear story for auditors when the time came to get authorized for high-level government work. I was able to detect and remediate increasing threats from across the globe to our commercial and federal systems and build observability functions into our workflows so that we don't fly blind in the face of ongoing threats to cybersecurity companies across the globe.
My journey now continues. In April 2026, I've been recruited to join NewtonX, a leading market research firm, to head up its Security & IT systems as it scales up. I'm most comfortable building and scaling IT systems for the modern age, and protecting user data so the internet is a little bit safer.
