Adnan Berik

Platform security and AI infrastructure

Cyber defense operations for the U.S. Air Force, TS/SCI cleared. Independently, I build and benchmark infrastructure around AI model serving.

Based
Hampton, VA
Open to
New York · Washington, D.C.
Clearance
Active TS/SCI

Selected work

public on GitHub

Secure GPU Inference Gateway

Access control and audit

An authenticated gateway in front of model endpoints. It decides who may call which model, at what budget, and what gets recorded.

Gateway architectureA caller reaches the control plane, which applies identity, policy, budget and routing and writes an audit record, then forwards to the model servers while exporting metrics.CALLERIDENTITYPOLICYBUDGETROUTEAUDIT RECORDMODEL SERVERSMETRICS
01Identitycaller authenticated, model allowlist checked
02Policytoken and request budgets, rate limit, reason for access
03Routebatched, dispatched, path recorded with the response
04Executememory and capacity budgets, replayable
05Measurelatency, cost and failures to Prometheus
06Recordwho asked, what ran, what it cost
07Gatepromote, hold or roll back on regression
local current = redis.call("INCRBY", KEYS[1], ARGV[1])
if current == tonumber(ARGV[1]) then
  redis.call("PEXPIRE", KEYS[1], ARGV[2])
end
if current > tonumber(ARGV[3]) then
  return {0, current, tonumber(ARGV[3])}
end
return {1, current, tonumber(ARGV[3])}
gateway/rate_limit.py, Redis path

Separate read, increment and expire calls can race across gateway replicas. The Lua script makes the fixed-window counter atomic, sets expiry only on the call that opens the window, and returns the decision with the updated counter. The principal id is SHA-256 hashed into the key rather than stored.

End-to-end measurement

Benchmarked against direct vLLM on the same host: Qwen2.5-3B on an RTX 5070 Ti, driven by vLLM's own serving client with paired seeds and three repetitions. 3,000 requests, no failures. Gateway throughput tracked direct within run-to-run variance, so no overhead or speedup figure is claimed.

Repository ↗rate_limit.py ↗Python, FastAPI, Redis, OpenTelemetry, Docker

Triton Kernel Lab

GPU performance

Fused RMSNorm and autotuned SwiGLU kernels written in Triton.

2.2×RMSNorm · RTX 5070 Ti

torch.compile baseline1.00×

fused Triton kernelup to 2.2×

Every output validated against an FP32 reference, cache flushed between runs. Full latency distributions and a regression gate are in the repository.

Repository ↗Measurements ↗Triton, PyTorch, CUDA

Deterministic Inference Scheduler

Serving internals

Continuous batching, paged KV-cache admission and decode scheduling rebuilt in Rust, so identical input produces an identical trace.

Run A, batch admission

Run B, replayed from fingerprint

Identical fingerprints, so a failing run replays exactly.

Also public

Experience

2023 / PRESENT

Cyber Defense Operations Specialist (TS/SCI)

United States Air Force, ACC, Langley AFB, VA

  • Help run 24/7 cyber defense for 26 wings across 15 bases, roughly 27,000 users.
  • Built a tracking tool that fused 216,000 data points into 4 live dashboards, cutting threat resolution from 5 days to 2.
  • Helped resolve a NORAD network outage: found a failed $700K circuit and coordinated the enterprise-wide fix.
  • Led 11 Airmen through 18 cyber tasking orders, hardening 30,000 systems.
  • Named HQ ACC/A6 Airman of the Year, 2025.

Ongoing

Independent engineering

Remote

  • AI serving infrastructure: gateway, scheduler, GPU kernels, benchmarks.
  • Linux game-server infrastructure for a community of about 29,000 players. Monitoring, backups, performance tuning.

Clearance and certification

  • TS/SCI Security Clearance
  • CompTIA Security+
  • CompTIA A+
  • AWS Technical Essentials

Education

  • Western Governors UniversityB.S. Cybersecurity & Information Assurance (in progress)
  • Northern Virginia Community CollegeComputer Science coursework (60+ credits)

Recognition

  • HQ ACC/A6 Airman of the Year, 2025
  • HQ ACC/A6 Team of the Year, 2025
  • HQ ACC/A6 Warfighter Communication Award, 2025
  • 4x Squadron Team of the Quarter

Contact

adnanberik@hotmail.com

Open to platform security and AI infrastructure roles in New York or Washington, D.C.