Ashley Nikirk.
I write software and occassionaly hack
I am a third-year BS student at Rochester Institute of Technology. I am majoring in Computing Security and have a passion for software engineering and homelabbing.
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Experience
I designed and developed scalable microservices in Go that improved Apple’s security posture. Additionally I developed a secrets scanning tool to efficiently search all of Apple’s logging solutions.
I adapted practices from the CISA/NSA joint advisory on hardening Kubernetes to be used by the Kyverno policy engine. Additionally I created a CLI using Python to interact with the Kubernetes API.
Education
2021 - 2025
Bachelor of Science in Computing Security
Rochester Institute of Technology
GPA:
3.68 out of 4.00
Extracurricular Activities
- President of RIT’s Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Chapter (2022).
- Member of RITSEC, RIT’s security club and the largest academic club on campus (2021-Pres.)
- Developer for RITSEC’s Red Team, which creates malware for use in cybersecurit competitions.
- Lead for the Information Security Talent Search (ISTS) in 2023.
Projects
Flask
Python
Go
Bifrost
A command and control (C2) server built with Flask. Malleable agent written in Go.
Kubernetes
Docker
GitOps
CI/CD
Microservices
Homelab
Managed home networking and gained intimate experience with virtualization, containers, CI/CD, and Unraid.
Achievements
RIT Five-Year Presidential Scholarship
Maximum academic scholarship amount offered by RIT. The scholarship is renewed automatically each year.