ADAM FASULO

M.S. in Computer Science (incoming)

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics (GPA: 3.33)

Focus: Operating Systems, Cryptography, Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing.

• • Founder/Operator of a security consultancy managing IT infrastructure for local firms.
• • Designed secure network architectures including firewall policies, EDR deployment, and least-privilege access.
• • Developed Python-based automation for performance data analysis in sports science initiatives.

• • Developed kernel-level Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) hooks for the HADES platform (R&D 100 Award).
• • Built a serial log routing system using a Cisco 3650 for capturing kernel panic data in environments where network traffic would compromise the deception.
• • Built a forensic search engine using LSM-Trees and Bloom filters; reduced query latency for petabyte-scale datasets from hours to sub-millisecond.
• • Reverse engineered proprietary ICS/SCADA protocols (Siemens, GE, Schneider Electric) to support cyber defense tooling and anomaly detection.
• • Owned infrastructure and automation for TracerFire — a cyber exercise teaching incident response at colleges and companies. Built AWS provisioning with Ansible, Terraform, and Meteor.
• • Automated large-scale virtualized lab provisioning via Ansible and Terraform, reducing setup time by 95%.

• • Received Employee Recognition Award for developing an application enabling lab-wide equipment reuse.
• • Wrote PowerShell scripts to automate data aggregation, reducing workflow time from 90 hours to 6 hours.