About Chris Kite
Employment
Chris is a web developer at Vertive, Inc., a leading performance marketing company based in Austin, Texas. He creates advanced functionality for Vertive's best-in-class websites using Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL.
From May 2006 to May 2008, Chris worked for the Center for Information Assurance and Security as a research assistant. His work focused on systems and security, and he was the lead developer on a project dealing with high-performance full-disk encryption on the Linux operating system. This project included security research, system design and implementation, and performance benchmarking.
Chris co-founded Vesper Web Design, an Austin-based company run by UT Alumni, in December 2006. He was responsible for programming advanced web functionality in PHP and JavaScript, and specialized in web security and e-commerce.
Education
Chris Kite has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. His specialization is computer security and systems, and he also took several courses in number theory.