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aidanlevy

Aidan Levy

  • Active Secret Clearance
  • U.S. Citizen

Computer Science & Data Science student working on DoD test & evaluation, HPC, and systems software

I'm a Computer Science (AI track) and Data Science student at Salisbury University, currently a software engineering intern with ASRC Federal on the DoD's GhostWriter test-and-evaluation effort. My work spans data-fusion pipelines and applied AI, high-performance and systems programming in C on Linux, and ROS 2 robotics. I care about low-level detail, clear engineering tradeoffs, and building things that hold up under real constraints.

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About

Close to the machine

I study Computer Science with an AI track alongside Data Science, with a minor in Mathematics, at Salisbury University in the Clarke Honors College. Most of what I enjoy sits close to the machine: writing C on Linux, reasoning about memory and data movement, and understanding why one implementation is faster or more reliable than another.

Right now I'm a software engineering intern with ASRC Federal (TRMCi) on GhostWriter, a DoD test-and-evaluation report-generation effort originating at Dugway Proving Ground, where I build Python data-fusion pipelines and applied-AI workflows. Alongside that I work in high-performance computing — distributing linear algebra across processes with MPI and OpenMP — in ROS 2 robotics on the Unitree G1, and across the data and machine learning stack with PyTorch, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow.

Outside of the technical work I teach and lead. I help students debug and reason through their code as a lab assistant, and I founded and run a children's jiu-jitsu program and the university's jiu-jitsu club. Both come from the same place: a preference for consistent, disciplined work over shortcuts, and for explaining things clearly.

Experience

Work with real constraints

Defense-focused software engineering, robotics research, network engineering, and teaching.

June 2026 — Present

Current

Software Engineering Intern

ASRC Federal (TRMCi), CDAO

  • Build Python data-fusion pipelines for GhostWriter, a Pentagon-level DoD test-and-evaluation report-generation initiative originating at Dugway Proving Ground — ingesting 1,000+ technical reports, converting PDFs to text, and combining extracted text with CSV/PDF metadata for taxonomy discovery.
  • Develop ATEC-facing prompt strategies and improvement proposals for GhostWriter, comparing a $50K-per-document, four-week baseline against a roughly $10, 18-minute AI-assisted generation cycle — a projected up to $115M annually across ATEC's 2,300-test workload.
  • Automated a mentor–mentee matching workflow that reactivated a program dormant for seven years, eliminating an estimated 1,200+ annual labor hours (~$62K/yr) at Dugway, with projected Army-wide savings of up to $11.5M annually if scaled.

January 2026 — May 2026

Unitree G1 Robotics Researcher

Real Robotics Lab

  • Troubleshot ROS 2 / DDS telemetry loss between the Unitree G1 and its Linux control host, isolating the issue to network/firewall restrictions and coordinating with IT to restore DDS transport and discovery traffic.
  • Developed Linux-based ROS 2 joint-control software for Unitree G1 locomotion and state transitions, coordinating with vision and grasping teams during cross-functional integration meetings.

June 2024 — May 2026

Network Engineer Intern

Salisbury University IT

  • Deployed, configured, and validated 500+ Aruba 635 access points across 15+ buildings in a campus-wide infrastructure upgrade serving 7,000+ users.
  • Diagnosed and resolved Layer 1–2 connectivity issues across the campus Aruba network, tracing faults through switchports, VLAN configuration, and physical infrastructure.
  • Restored ~100 Windows endpoints during the 2024 CrowdStrike outage using standardized USB-based recovery procedures, supporting campus-wide IT service restoration.

August 2024 — May 2026

Computer Lab Assistant

Salisbury University

  • Supported 50+ students weekly across three CS courses — debugging code, resolving implementation errors, and grading assignments on correctness, style, and problem-solving approach.

Projects

Selected work

Projects that need explicit control over performance, data movement, and system behavior.

High-Performance Computing

Distributed Linear Algebra Engine

GitHub ↗

A distributed linear algebra engine in C, parallelized with OpenMPI across a distributed-memory model.

  • C
  • OpenMPI
  • HPC
  • Accelerated Gaussian elimination to RREF by 14.7× across 8 MPI processes, using row-cyclic distribution with MPI_Bcast pivot propagation and cache-blocked local elimination.
  • Profiled communication-versus-compute tradeoffs across matrix sizes and process counts, isolating pivot broadcast as the dominant scaling bottleneck and mapping speedup dropoff points.

Security / Systems

ByteScatter

GitHub ↗

A secure distributed file-storage system built for fault tolerance and zero-knowledge data protection.

  • Python
  • AES-256-GCM
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305
  • Built a secure distributed file-storage prototype in Python with AES-256-GCM authenticated encryption, per-fragment integrity checks, and configurable endpoint-based chunking.
  • Won 2nd place in the Cybersecurity track at HenHacks 2025.

Full-Stack Web

ATLAS

A full-stack job-application tracker for managing a 100+ application pipeline end to end.

  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Shipped a typed FastAPI/SQLAlchemy REST API backed by PostgreSQL 16 with Alembic migrations, and a React/TypeScript frontend.

Research

Undergraduate research

An honors thesis on conversational AI and wellbeing, plus signal processing and AI-policy work.

August 2025 — December 2026

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Clarke Honors College

  • Designed an IRB-pending empirical study examining how conversational-AI use relates to college-aged students' wellbeing, perceived dependence, and emotional reliance.
  • Conducted the literature synthesis, developed the survey instrument, and defined study methodology, with statistical analysis planned in Python/Pandas for human-subjects data.

August 2024 — May 2025

Digital Signal Processing Research

Advised by Dr. Cone

  • Implemented six audio effects in NumPy/SciPy — Butterworth shelving filters, resonant peaking EQ, compression, multi-tap reverb, and LFO-modulated chorus over user-defined time windows.
  • Built a 44.1 kHz DSP pipeline with ffmpeg conversion and yt-dlp audio ingest, and reproducible signal-processing workflows; presented findings at the Salisbury University Student Research Conference (SUSRC).

August 2023 — December 2023

AI Policy Research

HONR 111 Research Seminar

  • Reviewed U.S. policy responses to AI mental-health chatbots — regulatory gaps, privacy protections, and clinical-safety concerns — and presented oversight recommendations at SUSRC.

Skills

Tools and domains

Languages & Tools
  • C
  • C++
  • Python
  • Bash
  • SQL
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Azure
  • GCC
  • Make
  • gdb
  • valgrind
Systems, HPC & Networking
  • Linux
  • POSIX
  • Systems programming
  • Concurrency
  • IPC
  • Shared memory
  • Memory management
  • OpenMPI / OpenMP
  • Multithreading
  • Performance profiling
  • Benchmarking
  • ROS 2
Web & Full-Stack
  • FastAPI
  • REST APIs
  • SQLAlchemy 2.0
  • Alembic
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • Vite
Testing & Defense
  • DoD T&E
  • Verification & validation (V&V)
  • Test automation
  • Requirements tracing
  • Test planning & execution
  • Test-data classification
  • Expected-vs-observed analysis
  • Root-cause analysis
Security
  • AES-256-GCM
  • ChaCha20-Poly1305
  • RSA
  • HKDF
AI & Data
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • NumPy
  • Pandas

Leadership

Building and teaching

Running a business, leading a club, and years of disciplined training outside of engineering.

Founder & Head Instructor

January 2023 — Present

Padawan Jiu-Jitsu

Founded and run a children's Brazilian jiu-jitsu program — teaching three times weekly to 40+ current students and coaching 50+ through belt and stripe promotions — and manage scheduling, enrollment, curriculum, and the program website end to end.

Founder & President

October 2023 — Present

SU Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club

Founded and led Salisbury University's first Brazilian jiu-jitsu club, securing official university recognition and growing membership to 30 students across all experience levels.

Web Developer

January 2026 — Present

GullHacks — Salisbury University's Hackathon

Built and styled the website for the university's first hackathon, collaborating with the design team on layout and visual identity.

Honors & Awards

Recognition

Education

Academic background

Salisbury University

B.S. Computer Science (AI Track) & B.S. Data Science, Minor in Mathematics

Clarke Honors College

August 2023 — May 2027

GPA 3.91

Relevant coursework

  • High Performance Computing
  • Systems Software
  • Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Cryptography
  • Database Design & Implementation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Linear Algebra

Contact

Get in touch

Open to systems, HPC, DSP, and defense-adjacent software opportunities.