Vincent A. Altavilla

Software Engineer 3, Risk Platform Sep 2022 – present

• Deprecating a legacy risk ingestion system of 13 services across 7 cloud environments, 3 datastores and Kafka.
• Developed RAG pipelines with Anthropic and OpenAI models over a Bedrock Knowledge Base (OpenSearch) of GitHub and Exploit-DB data to enrich CVEs.
• Used LLMs to generate CVE exploitability criteria that trigger targeted device scans for prioritization.
• Engineered backend services for attack path analysis, mapping attack vectors to customers’ critical assets.
• Core engineer on the Risk Repository, a Kafka-based system that ingests every CVE change and powers attack paths.
• Built a customer-facing Go API serving attack paths and risk summaries to the UI and backend services.

Senior Data Engineer, Platforms Oct 2021 – Aug 2022

• Designed an ETL framework on Data Fusion and architected pipelines with PySpark and Airflow.
• Implemented custom key rotation for GCP service account keys.
• Maintained and enhanced Oracle Audit API microservices.

Senior Software Engineer, InSight Core Services/Integrations Apr 2018 – Oct 2021

• Leveraged Google Cloud Platform and Spring MVC to build custom backend REST APIs.
• Wrote an ingestion module to process 100k+ documents from scan centers and files of 500 GB+.
• Converted Java REST APIs to Python serverless Cloud Functions and vice versa.

Software Engineer 2 Apr 2017 – Apr 2018

• Created an in-house Java tool suite for testing mission computer messaging architecture.
• Reverse engineered binary mission data files using Python.

Software Engineer, Team Lead & Scrum Master Oct 2014 – Apr 2017

• Built and maintained a Java EE flight line logistics application, including REST APIs for mobile.
• Developed a flight line scheduler using Java with a custom AngularJS library.