Kendrick Eargle

About Kendrick Eargle

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with hands-on experience in various levels of product development, complex software architecture and design, advanced understanding of network topology and design, build infrastructure, testing (functional, build, regression and system), automation development, agile/waterfall methodologies and leadership skills. Great team member with expertise in resolving any customer, project, or software application issue. Willingness to take ownership of core components and customer advocacy.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   IBM

   Dec 2023 — Present · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US

   Redesigned and developed custom network data path through Istio Ingress Gateway by manipulating TCP packets to include proxy header with source IP. This design is an extension to support IBM Cloud platform “Context Based Restriction” (CBR) feature within Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) Product. Enabling this support, provided customers the ability to enforce rules using the requester source IP on HPCS API endpoints adding an extra layer of security in real-time• Lead network design, software development and deployment to support Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) Product infrastructure migration to IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) replacing IBM Cloud Load Balancer as A Service (LBaaS) solution to Kubernetes with installed add-on Istio. Migrating to Istio, which is serving as middleware in HPCS service stack controlling inbound and outbound traffic. With the new design, provisioning, updating and de-provisioning HPCS improved by 99% and drastically simplified the networking configuration• Lead software and architectural design, development and deployment on integration of IBM Cloud platform “Context Based Restriction” (CBR) feature within Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) Product, enabling users the ability to configure restrictions on network location of access requests. This feature added an extra layer of access request protection based on originator IP address and is a wrapper around the Identity and Access Management (IAM) system that HPCS customers use at baseline for user access on account resources. The key impact of CBR used with HPCS granted customers the ability to expand their control by scoping usage of HPCS API endpoints with enhanced security based on real-time factors such as, location, device and user behavior

Education

• University of South Carolina

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology

  2011 — 2012

• Midlands Technical College

  Associate in Science, Electrical Engineering

  2007 — 2009

• Midlands Technical College

  Associate in Arts, Computer Programming/Programmer, General

  2009 — 2010

Skills

• Troubleshooting
• Smp/E
• Technical Support
• Cics
• Ispf
• Operating Systems
• Matlab
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Xslt
• Visual Studio
• Quality Assurance
• Tso
• Sharepoint
• Z/Os
• Jcl
• Logicworks
• Systems Analysis
• Java
• Xml
• Rexx
• Vb.net
• Xhtml
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Captivate
• Vba
• Security
• C#
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Hardware
• Mvs
• Visual Basic
• Customer Service
• Oracle Sql
• Sql
• Visio
• Linux
• Asp.net
• Mainframe