Daniel Proano
Embedded Security Engineer
BBI Logistics · Purdue University
Open to internships · May 2028
I specialize in designing performant & secure systems for everything from race cars to drones to rocket ships!
Resume
Autonomous Team
Project Highlights
I made an Autonomous Racecar
We won 1st place in the International Autonomous Karting Series! I built everything from the computer vision algorithm to cutting the steel for the chassis!
Firefly: A Real Time OS for the STM32F4
I hand-made a real time operating system for the STM32f4 microcontroller, featuring a preemptvie scheduler with priority-based task & queue, mutex, and sempaphore primitives!
Starling: An Autonomous Drone Fleet Coordinator
Coming Soon
Buffalo: A Secure Bootloader for STM32 in Spark ADA & C
Coming Soon
Dragonfly: A Drone Flight Controller
Coming Soon
A PHAL for a RaceCar
Coming Soon
Vulnerability Research on Baby Monitor
Software lead conducting vulnerability research using Android phone emulation and reverse engineering techniques to do binary exploitation, network analysis, and static analysis
Portfolio Website
I've made 3 versions of my Portfolio website, getting experience in AWS, GCR, Vercel, Next.js, React, Javascript, load balancers and more!
A Modern Zero-Knowledge Password Manager
A traditional password manager can leak your passwords, but my implementation of the Zero-Knowledge Architecture is designed to address that!
Chess Engine 3.0 w/ Rust + React
A hand-made Rust chess engine implementing advanced alpha-beta pruning, complete move generation, and a whole frontend with fen integration!
Object Detection with Drones
I made over 30 different YOLOv8 AI models for Corn Tassel object detection from a drone!
Hardware Hacking a 2002 Card Reader
I researched how to exploit and take control of a 2002 Smart Card Reader using fuzzing and bruteforce.
Enigma Machine
I recreated history's most famous encryption algorithm: the Enigma Machine.