Kandice Hendricks
Solution Architect · Cybersecurity Leader · DevSecOps & Zero Trust
25+ years designing secure, scalable enterprise platforms across Azure, AWS, OCI, and hybrid environments — from VA federal contracts to Fortune 500 cloud migrations.
Areas of Expertise
25+ years bridging the gap between development velocity, security posture, and executive business goals across healthcare, finance, government, and enterprise.
Multi-Cloud Architecture
Enterprise platform design across Azure, AWS, OCI, and hybrid environments with cloud-native migration strategies.
Zero Trust & Cybersecurity
Zero Trust Security Architecture, Post-Quantum Cryptography, threat modeling, and vulnerability remediation.
DevSecOps Transformation
Automated CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning, SAST, container security, and IaC policy enforcement.
Compliance & Governance
NIST CSF, CMMC, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 — automated compliance mapping and continuous monitoring.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, and Azure Policies for reproducible, governed, version-controlled infrastructure at scale.
Enterprise Networking
Cisco, Fortinet, Aviatrix, WAF, VPC/vNET, firewalls, NACLs, CDN, and secure network architecture design.
Security Operations
SIEM/SOAR implementation with Sentinel, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, CyberArk, Tenable, and SolarWinds SEM.
Penetration Testing as a Service
Founder of GhostDrill — automated pen testing platform with compliance mapping and executive risk visibility.
AI Security & LLM Governance
Securing generative AI deployments on Azure AI Foundry — prompt injection defense, RAG data protection, LLM threat modeling, and responsible AI governance frameworks.
Cloud & Cybersecurity Leader
with 25+ Years of Impact
I'm Kandice Hendricks — a Cloud Solution Architect and Cybersecurity Leader who has spent over two decades designing secure, scalable enterprise platforms. I've led 25-person cybersecurity architecture teams, driven 95% completion of enterprise on-premises to cloud migrations, and founded GhostDrill, a PTaaS platform focused on compliance automation and red team remediation.
From leading VA federal security architecture contracts to engineering automated DR failover for Fortune 500 clients — I bring deep technical execution paired with executive-level strategic alignment. My mission is to bridge the gap between C-suite risk visibility and ground-level security engineering.
Featured on theCUBE — SiliconANGLE
CUBE Conversation with Venkat Krishnamachari, March 2021 · Cloud Architecture & DevOps
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Technical Stack
Cloud Platforms
Security Tools
CI/CD & IaC
Auth & IAM
AI / ML / LLM
Monitoring
Scripting
Technical Skill Depth
25+ years of hands-on proficiency across cloud, security, AI/ML, automation, and enterprise infrastructure.
Cloud Platforms
Listen to My Story
Multi-Cloud Mastery and the Power of Resilient Leadership
This episode explores my unconventional career journey — from NHRA drag racing mechanics to Director of DevSecOps. We discuss multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure & OCI, empathetic leadership, AI security, and post-quantum cryptography.
Featured Appearance
A featured interview discussing cloud security, Zero Trust architecture, and the future of enterprise cybersecurity.
MTMG — Featured Interview
Cloud Security · Zero Trust · Enterprise Architecture
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Cloud Infrastructure?
Let's connect. Whether it's Zero Trust architecture, a cloud migration, DevSecOps transformation, or compliance automation — I bring 25+ years of battle-tested expertise to the table.