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.
• 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).
• 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.

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.
• 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