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Ethan Sam

AI Security Engineer

Building secure AI systems and using AI to break insecure ones.

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Shipped to production with Capacitor

On-device ML

TensorFlow.js inference for streak insights

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Every table locked down, zero exposed endpoints

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Live messaging and friend activity via Supabase

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Campaign Insights Bot

Built before the interview, not after. Designed an AI-powered Slack monitoring system with Z-score anomaly detection and GPT-generated campaign insights. Closed-loop feedback lets the model improve from analyst corrections in real time.

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Built proactively — secured the role before the first interview

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Weather Edge

A quantitative trading system that finds mispriced daily high temperature brackets on Kalshi prediction markets by fusing 194 AI and physics-based weather model forecasts against real-time market prices.

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194 ensemble forecasts | 7 pre-trade risk guards | Live system

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Experience

MiQ Digital

Associate, Innovation & Automation

2025 - Present

New York, NY

  • â—†Built Daily Briefing Buddy — AI agent with 93% adoption across US org and 46K+ conversations
  • â—†Designed push-based agent architecture integrating Slack, Gmail, and Google Calendar
  • â—†Shipped Account Snapshot, Deal Desk assistant, and Weekly Outlook agents on Glean platform
  • â—†Pioneered zero-friction deployment model for AI agents across 1,400-person organization

NYU Langone Health

AI & Cybersecurity Intern

Sep 2024 - Dec 2024

New York, NY

  • â—†Developed AI-driven chatbot enhancing vulnerability management by 30%
  • â—†Automated ICS security scans across 11 hospitals and 300+ ambulatory sites
  • â—†Created documentation and training materials for IT security team adoption

NYC Cyber Command

Cybersecurity Auditor

Dec 2021 - Aug 2023

New York, NY

  • â—†Administered ICS security assessments across 50+ mission-critical OT/ICS systems
  • â—†Identified and remediated 100+ cybersecurity vulnerabilities
  • â—†Reduced non-compliance issues by 20% using NIST frameworks
  • â—†Developed internal Audit Guide reducing audit time by 20%

Education

New York University

M.S. Cybersecurity

Aug 2022 - June 2025

GPA: 3.96

NSA-CAE DefenseNational Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C)
Exploring Adversarial Machine LearningNVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
  • â—†Key Coursework: Network Security, Digital Forensics, Cloud Security, Applied Cryptography
  • â—†Co-developed CNN-based phishing detection system at CSAW (Best Challenge Award)

CUNY Hunter College

B.S. Computer Science

Sep 2018 - June 2022

GPA: 3.90

  • â—†Led CodePath.org cybersecurity program with 70% placement rate
  • â—†Enhanced threat detection accuracy by 20% with IBM QRadar
  • â—†Received Black Hat Briefings Scholarship for cybersecurity work

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I publish when I learn something worth sharing.

Build Log8 min read

How I Built an AI Agent That 93% of My Company Actually Uses

Most enterprise AI tools die the same death: a flashy launch, then silence. Here's how a push-based design pattern broke that cycle — 46,000 conversations and counting.

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Let's Connect

Looking for roles where I can secure AI systems at scale — guardrails, red teaming, model governance, or building the infrastructure that makes AI safe to deploy.

Also open to collaborating on AI security research and open-source tooling.

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