Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
BS, Computer Engineering
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019

Experience

BitAssassin
Atlanta, GA
CTO
Jun 2022 - present
  • AIGIS : Algorithmic High-Frequency-Trading, strategy development, evaluation, and execution system. System has been used internally to develop successful ML-based trading strategies for crypto, stock, and energy markets.
  • ARBI : Ultra-low latency arbitrage trading system primarily for decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Utilizes a novel differential graph search algorithm accelerated on FPGAs to identify opportunities before competitors.
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    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA
    Cybersecurity Researcher
    Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
  • DARPA V-SPELLS : Novel firmware analysis, retrofitting, and verification system. I created the binary equivalence verification system and was heavily involved in the lifting and rewriting/patching portions.
  • VASE CACEE/S2E : Novel malware analysis system for industrial control system malware (primarily focusing on malware that targets electric grids, such as Industroyer). I designed and implemented the analysis system on top of S2E and greatly expanded the system's capabilities to be able to analyze live malware and ICS interactions.
  • SupplyDrop : Malware analysis system for identifying relations between malware supply-chain attacks in package managers (Python's Pypi, and Node's NPM). I researched, designed, implemented and maintained the system.
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    Codoxo (formerly FraudScope)
    Atlanta, GA
    DevOps Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
  • SOC2 & HITRUST Certifications : I implemented all technical measures for the certifications including: extensive authentication and logging controls, SIEM, automated code security and quality analysis.
  • Purple-Team : I performed SIEM monitoring and incident response, implemented new defensive controls, ported and created patches for software with no patch available, and performed periodic penetration testing of systems.
  • Cloud Infrastructure : I designed, deployed and optimized production AWS infrastructure including: CI/CD pipelines, RDS (PostgreSQL), DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, S3, EC2, ECS, Lambda, IAM, and LDAP deployments.
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    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Atlanta, GA
    Student Assistant
    Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Scientific Data Analysis Software : I implemented new and ported existing data analysis algorithms to the lab's IGOR Pro data-analysis suite to analyze CD & MS data from biochemistry origins-of-life research.
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