Luca K. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Dublin, Ie

Dublin, Ie

• Founding member of Aptiv's GenAI team.

Dublin, Ie

• Initiated and completed Aptiv's transition from QRadar to Splunk, a massive overhaul of the company's internal security.• Wrote, developed, continue to add to, and monitor an entire codebase of complex, asynchronous Python scripts that transport data used company-wide. The scripts are entirely automated, including their log and error monitoring, are crash-resistant, and self-restart. There was no codebase within the security team prior to my creation of one. The main script includes bringing data from Infoblox and ServiceNow into Rapid7 to manage Aptiv's collection of 100k+ digital assets.• Communicated the need of, executed a search for, implemented, and manage version control software for the entirety of the Cyber Defense team. There was no version control prior.• Manage an automation server for the aforementioned scripts.• Created a vanity URL generator for the entirety of Aptiv. The website includes creation, editing, and deletion of vanity URLs as well as SAML authentication. The full-stack is as follows: Next.js (React + Tailwind CSS) for the frontend, Prisma as the ORM, and PostgreSQL as the backend.• Created an internal website to manage critical assets within Aptiv and its subsidiaries. The core full-stack components are the same as the vanity URL shortener website.• Monitor, investigate, and respond to events as an L2 member of the SOC team.• Conducted pentesting on Aptiv's network and subsequent reporting, exploiting everything from WannaCry to internally-listed FTP credentials.• Led Aptiv's response to external auditing, organizing efforts across the entire Enterprise Cyber organization.• Conducted research on various cyber tools and threats, including Abnormal Security for tools and Midnight Blizzard for threats, writing reports and leading team response efforts for all.• Led the Cyber Defense team during a change of leadership at the CISO position, ensuring team cohesion, employee morale, and communication of needs to new leadership.

London, Gb

• Led research of novel natural language processing (NLP) architectures, specifically large language models (LLMs) including GPT- and BERT-based, to facilitate contract lifecycle management• Conducted research on converting natural language searches into structured queries

New York, Ny, Us

• A literature review of lattice-based cryptography and its underlying, related problems such as the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) and Learning With Errors (LWE), attacks on lattice-based cryptography• Created a novel extension of the Franklin-Reiter Related Message attack on RSA, scaling the attack to arbitrary numbers of messages & known polynomial relations and completing a subsequent paper

Ithaca, New York, Us

• Co-led a team of 68 undergraduates to design, manufacture, program, and test a 12-foot wingspan, fully-custom, carbon-fiber composite, fully-autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) as well as horizontal flight• Redesigned part of the team’s frontend over the course of a semester using React and Redux, and in the process created a test suite to ensure proper functionality• Lead effort to overhaul part of the team’s PostgreSQL backend in Java, moving from Play Framework to Spring Boot• Helped construct an algorithm in Python to autonomously drop an unmanned rover from the air• Team placed 2nd among fixed-wing aircraft and won the Most Innovative Award for our VTOL design in the international 2022 AUVSI-SUAS competition

New York City, Us

• Collaborated with several other developers to create a the company’s main product, a React Native-based app• Redesigned website (navisaviapp.com) using Gatsby.js and custom HTML & CSS, ensuring responsive design• Led a redevelopment effort of internal admin portal in React• Co-led a marketing campaign that boosted Instagram following by 150% in two months• Performed research and analysis on industry competitors

New York, Ny, Us

• Automated a quantitative-modeling/credit-rating tool using R and SQL• Fabricated an Excel & VBA tool to drastically increase the speed at which analysts generate credit reports• Completed the Bloomberg Market Concepts course through the Bloomberg Terminal

• Used Shopify to redesign website (www.bandarfoods.com) for start-up food company; Website has been changed under new management• Managed the Bandar Foods Instagram for one and a half years; Increased follower count by almost 300%

Masters Of Engineering - M.Eng, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science