Est. 2012 Edition №01 Lead · IT · Engineer Remote · LA

Kyle· Thornton

I build the systems that scale teams effectively — identity, endpoints, and the automations behind them.

Lead IT Engineer working across enterprise and startup. Passionate, dedicated, collaborative — and focused on making everyone else's job easier.

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// The receipts

4,000+

Endpoints managed

Mixed-OS fleets, end to end

$0K+

Saved via automation

Real dollars, not vibes

<20 min

Zero-touch deployment

Unboxed to working, fully automated

(01) Who

What I do,
plainly.

I'm the person you call when the identity stack is held together with shared spreadsheets, the laptop deploy still takes a human, and someone needs to make it all run smoothly.

From 50-person startups to 4,000-endpoint enterprises, I design the systems, write the scripts, and lead the teams that run them. Platform SSO. Zero-touch. Automations that retire tickets faster than you can write them.

Also: competent, friendly, and easy to work with. Good vibes are infrastructure too.

(02) Work

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Designed and shipped a zero-touch deployment pipeline with Platform SSO; new-hire laptop time dropped from days to under 20 minutes.
Contributed to the org's AI usage policy and security guardrails, helping shape safe, practical rules for enterprise AI tools.
Built workflow automations across Okta Workflows and n8n, cutting down recurring access and lifecycle tickets.

Led the End-User Computing team — seven engineers owning device policy, software deployment, patching, and endpoint lifecycle across a hybrid Windows/macOS fleet.
Directed the enterprise MDM migration from JumpCloud to Kandji — full fleet cutover, zero downtime.
Consolidated patch management and remote support by replacing three legacy tools with NinjaOne, cutting tooling overhead across 4,000+ endpoints.
Continued shipping alongside the team — reviewed code, paired on automations, and stayed in the weeds where it mattered.

Deployed CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager across 4,000+ endpoints, eliminating 2,000+ local admin accounts and replacing shared credentials with policy-driven elevation.
Implemented SSO, MFA enforcement, and SCIM provisioning across dozens of SaaS platforms via JumpCloud — centralizing identity and access management.
Rolled out Cyberhaven (DDR) fleet-wide, building policies to monitor data flows and prevent data loss.
Core contributor to the org's PCI compliance initiative — endpoint hardening, access controls, and audit readiness.

2022 — 2024

Senior Enterprise Application Administrator

MATT Construction Corporation · owned the enterprise app stack & integrations
2020 — 2022

Azure Administrator

MATT Construction Corporation · ran the Azure tenant — identity, infra, governance
2016 — 2020

Systems Support Engineer

MATT Construction Corporation · mixed-fleet support, deployment & sysadmin work
2012 — 2015

Web and IT Specialist

Fullerton Photographics, Inc. · first IT job — web, hardware, everything else

(03) The stack

Okta JumpCloud Platform SSO SSO Entra ID MFA SCIM Conditional Access Zero trust Twingate 1Password Keeper Security CyberArk EPM Iru Kandji Intune NinjaOne Zero-touch Autopilot CrowdStrike Python PowerShell Bash Okta Workflows n8n Tray.ai Custom system integrations Workflow automation AI workflows MCP management Google Workspace Microsoft 365 Slack admin Cloudflare EDR Incident response Vulnerability management AI guardrails Cyberhaven SOC 2 ISO 27001 Access reviews Audit prep PCI Claude Code management Custom Claude skills

(04) Words

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№ 01 · Mar 24, 2026

Zero-touch deployment, end to end

A walkthrough of how we shipped fleet provisioning that boots itself, signs in, and shows up ready — without a single human in the loop.

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№ 02 · Feb 11, 2026

Scaling IAM past 1,000 users

What breaks first, what holds, and where to invest before you grow.

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№ 03 · Jan 08, 2026

Automation as headcount