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Kyle Kurz
Kyle is Wildfire's VP of Engineering.
Securing Access. Without Secrets.
By Kyle Kurz on November 06, 2023
Passkeys are all the rage these days, for obvious reasons. The idea of replacing a complex (or worse, reused) password you must remember with a unique generated secret stored on your machine for each ...
Wildfire's Rewards Platform Now Has SOC 2® Type II Compliance and PCI SAQ-A Attestation
By Kyle Kurz on February 22, 2023
UPDATE, 2/5/26: We once again received a clean SOC-2 Audit Report and completed our PCI-DSS SAQ-A self-assessment, to complete our 2025 audit cycle! These audits are proof of our commitment to high ...
The Three Pillars Of DevSecOps
By Kyle Kurz on October 20, 2022
When I'm interviewing potential candidates for our Developer jobs at Wildfire, one of my favorite discussions is the question "How do you define DevSecOps?" A quick search of Hacker News will show ...
Desert Terraform for Our White-Label Rewards Platform: An Oasis of DRY Principles
By Kyle Kurz on May 03, 2022
Terraform is an incredibly powerful tool for managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). (In fact, we’ve already made note of how we’re using Terraform to manage our passwords & secrets at Wildfire.) ...
Deploying Secrets: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Tooling
By Kyle Kurz on January 21, 2022
Introduction Secret management is hard. There, I said it. Leaked secrets in Slack channels, shared Google documents or accidental commits to a codebase are commonplace, daily occurrences at many ...