Kevin Haynes

Kevin Haynes is a dedicated Staff Sales Engineer at Splunk, a top data analytics company, specializing in State, Local, and Education customers in the Pacific Northwest. As a Security and Architecture subject matter expert, Kevin provides invaluable insights to the entire Public Sector sales team at Splunk.

With a strong background in software development, Kevin's expertise lies in creating electronic commerce and PCI-compliant platforms. Transitioning into the security engineering field, he focuses on integrating security throughout the software development life cycle and expanding into broader IT-organization security realms, including vulnerability management, web filtering, anti-virus solutions, network security, and data center migration to managed service provider models.

Driven by his passion for Splunk, Kevin combines his product enthusiasm with a wealth of experience to effectively showcase the exceptional attributes of Splunk to others. His specialties include electronic commerce, cryptography, application security, software development life cycle security, IT infrastructure security design and implementation, and project security engineering.

Kevin's educational journey includes earning a Master's degree, a Bachelor's degree, and pursuing a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego. Throughout his professional career, Kevin has held various key roles in renowned organizations such as Splunk, Premera Blue Cross, Intuit, HNC, and SAIC, contributing significantly to the fields of sales engineering, information security engineering, and software design and development.