Cypher LLC

4 Projects

Ghost Platform

April, 2025 ~ August, 2025
Ghost Platform (ghostplatform.ai) is a RAG chatbot that assists security analysts with research and investigations around classified knowledge bases, deployable in cloud, on-prem, and airgapped SCIF environments.
  • Built API and scripts to generate embeddings of knowledge base - txt, pdf, ppt, docx - common questions, and user prompts.
  • Built Docker orchestration of 6 containers to run in dev, cloud and onprem environments including behind airgapped SCIF networks.

Started: 2025-04-01

Launched/Lasted: 2025-08-01

Industries: Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End. Ben Ogden: Front-End, Back-End. John Izquierdo: CTO. Joseph Anderson: CEO.

Companies/Brands: Cypher LLC

Cosmo

March, 2021 ~ December, 2023
A cyber threat intelligence platform for threat and vulnerability analysis, investigations, testing, and mitigation
  • Designed advanced penetration tests in order to generate training data and formulate IoC Patterns based on signatures seen in logs.
  • Forked OpenCTI as interface to control ingestion, triage alerts and fine tune inference engine analysis.
  • Wrote Ingestion system to run log / email imports at any interval with encryption in transit and at rest, supporting configs for data retention and shareability policies.
  • Implemented deduplication and aggregation of Email data by maintaining checksum IDs on EML parts and its whole.
  • Built Puppeteer crawler to ingest client websites and learn URL patterns & HTML semantics for additional training data and monitoring standards.
  • Drafted all system Data Flow Diagrams for both architectural documentation and patent application.
  • Wrote Docker containers and CI/CD pipeline from GitHub Actions to GCP.

WBAT

April, 2020 ~ August, 2022
Safety reporting tools for the aviation industry. Available in the App Store & Google Play
  • Engineered mobile application with React Native, using React Navigation and Redux, to support preloading form schemas, queue form submissions, and manage system synchronization with and without an internet connection.
  • Flattened Redux data to enable selective updates, minimizing unnecessary renders and improving performance across loosely coupled components.
  • Built synchronous test suite for end-to-end API testing as any user.
  • Created sophisticated data reporting and visualization dashboard leveraging Google Chart API for real-time operational insights.

FLC

August, 2017 ~ January, 2020
Promoting, Educating, and Facilitating Knowledge Transfer
  • Migrated data from Solr server into Drupal CMS for streamlined content management while maintaining the Solr API functionality with optimized index updates from adds, edits and deletes.
  • Wrote duplicate reducer to compare nodes by measuring the similarity of common fields across sources. Used Levenshtein Distance algorithm and took action based on threshold configurations.
  • Rebuilt new Solr indexes with Drupal's Search API to respect CMS revisions and publish settings.
  • Developed front-end full-text search tools for global site search and FLCBusiness, implementing facet counts for enhanced filtering.
  • Built custom in-page editorial tools accessible based on Drupal Roles using Node Access Hooks.
  • Integrated CAS Authentication System for unified login capabilities between FLC sites.
  • Rebuilt custom theme with Bootstrap to improve overall site responsiveness, scalability, and ARIA compliance.
  • Developed CRON jobs to automate the import of licensable technologies from all NASA labs and other federally subsidized entities.
  • Upgraded Google Map integration to automatically update Map results alongside listed search results.

Started: 2017-08-01

Launched/Lasted: 2020-01-01

Industries: Technology, Marketing, Events, Analytics

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End, API. Joseph Anderson: Cypher CEO. Denise Wainer: UTRS Director of Communications. Will Dyson: UTRS System Administrator, Release

Companies/Brands: Federal Labs Consortium, Cypher LLC, UTRS