Diego Rivada Dashboard
Securing commercial aircraft at Boeing

Hi, I'm Diego.
I find the flaws before attackers do.

Product Security Engineer · Backup Team Lead

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3+ yrsaircraft product security
10threats modeled in EarDeck
4live attacks you can run here
Diego Rivada
About

A little about me

I'm Diego Rivada, a Product Security Engineer and Backup Team Lead at The Boeing Company in Seattle, with 3+ years securing commercial aircraft systems. I lead security assessments, vulnerability management, and airline customer support to meet FAA and EASA airworthiness and cybersecurity requirements.

I'm currently pursuing my Master's in Systems Architecting and Engineering at USC, deepening my understanding of complex systems and exploring how AI can make engineering more efficient. I'm especially interested in using AI to build next-generation cybersecurity tools, particularly for fighting malware in smarter, more adaptive ways.

Beyond the technical work, I serve as our Backup Team Lead: helping set priorities, stepping in when our lead is away, mentoring and onboarding new engineers, and bridging engineering, compliance, and customer stakeholders to build secure, resilient systems.

Education

  • M.S. Systems Architecting and Engineering, University of Southern California (expected December 2028)
  • B.S. Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity concentration, Florida International University (2022)

Certifications

  • Effective Prompt Engineering with Chat AI
What I build

Projects and experiments

Things I made because I wanted them to exist.

All projects

UltroBot: my private AI workspace

It's napping right now because the UltroLab Server is powered down. You can still see what it does while it sleeps.

It's awake. Chat, file making, coding agents, and a video studio, all running on my own hardware.

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Meet UltroBot

Security lab

The standards I work with, a threat model you can click through, and four attacks you can run against this site.

Try to break it

EarDeck

A free, threat-modeled AirPods tray app for Windows, built in Rust. No admin rights, no drivers, no data sent anywhere. Now in Microsoft Store review.

Threat model GitHub

UpdateAll

Update everything on your PC from one window: Windows, winget apps, npm and pip packages, and drivers. Version 1.0 is now on the Microsoft Store.

Get it from the Microsoft Store

Smart home and homelab

Proxmox for virtualization and Ubiquiti as the backbone, hosting containers, Home Assistant, and secure remote access, with IoT kept on its own network.

Read the case study

Local Video Studio

Type a topic and get a narrated YouTube video draft back. Free, open source, and it runs on your own PC.

Get it on GitHub
Experience

Where I've been

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Product Security Engineer II · Backup Team Lead

The Boeing CompanySeattle, WAAugust 2026 – Present
  • Support the Team Lead with day-to-day coordination, task prioritization, and Agile delivery tracking, and take over lead responsibilities when the primary lead is unavailable.
  • Lead security assessments of aircraft systems for FAA and EASA cybersecurity and airworthiness compliance.
  • Direct Nessus and Nmap vulnerability scanning, triage findings, and drive remediation of critical exposures.
  • Mentor and onboard new engineers, building training practices and an inclusive team culture.

Product Security Engineer II

The Boeing CompanySeattle, WAJune 2025 – August 2026
  • Conducted security assessments of aircraft systems to ensure FAA and EASA regulatory compliance.
  • Executed in-depth vulnerability scans with Nessus and Nmap and remediated critical exposures.
  • Processed airline Service Requests, performing log analysis and archive reviews for continued airworthiness.
  • Mentored new engineers and drove inclusion efforts during onboarding and team integration.
  • Managed Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) and SSL/TLS configurations for Flask-based web applications.

Product Security Engineer

The Boeing CompanySeattle, WAFebruary 2023 – June 2025
  • Performed security assessments of aircraft systems to ensure FAA and EASA regulatory compliance.
  • Executed vulnerability scans with Nessus and Nmap and documented findings for remediation.
  • Analyzed logs and archived data to resolve airline Service Requests.

Operations Manager

My Little WorldMiami, FLMay 2021 – January 2023
  • Managed business and IT operations, improving efficiency through workflow digitization.
  • Coordinated technical and administrative teams to speed cross-functional decisions.
Skills

What I work with

Primary areas: aircraft product security, vulnerability management, embedded systems security, and team leadership.

Security

  • Product Security
  • Vulnerability Assessment & Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Threat Analysis
  • Log Analysis
  • Digital Forensics
  • Reverse Engineering
  • PKI
  • SSL/TLS
  • Certificate Management

Aviation and compliance

  • DO-326B
  • DO-356B
  • DO-178
  • FAA
  • EASA
  • Aircraft Cybersecurity
  • Continued Airworthiness
  • Embedded Systems Security

Leadership

  • Team Leadership
  • Technical Mentoring
  • Onboarding
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Agile/Scrum
  • JIRA

Tools and languages

  • Nessus
  • Nmap
  • Wireshark
  • Kali Linux
  • Docker
  • Generative AI
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Python
  • C
  • C++

Networking

  • VLANs
  • WAN
  • TCP/IP
  • Infrastructure Management

Interests

The blend of security and technology, and how systems engineering meets innovation. Traveling and new perspectives fuel my creativity and curiosity.

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."Albert Einstein
Resume

The one-page version

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Contact

Let's talk

Questions about a role, a project, or an UltroBot invite? Send me a note.

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