Erick Alanis

Real Time Innovations

Application Engineer 1

August 2025 - Present

• Provide technical support and solutions to clients using RTI Connext DDS, a leading implementation of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard for real-time systems.
• Collaborate with teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to distributed systems, networking, and data communication.

NVIDIA

Embedded Systems Intern

May 2024 - August 2024

• Engineered a cross-platform containerized solution for NVIDIA's L4T (Linux for Tegra) flashing tool using Docker, enabling support beyond Ubuntu Linux, including Windows via WSL2. This required extensive research into USB passthrough, Linux device trees, and Docker's platform-specific behaviors.
• Prototyped a native WSL2 solution leveraging USB over TCP to bypass Docker entirely, successfully enabling device communication within WSL2 environments.
• Investigated and resolved bugs within the C-based flashing tool, enhancing developer experience by fixing inconsistent messaging and improving debugging visibility.
• Developed a full-stack visualization dashboard using Streamlit, MongoDB, and Jenkins, displaying OS image test results via interactive graphs. Designed filters by date and metadata to support QA engineers in monitoring regressions and analyzing test history.

Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CTPC)

November 2023

• Executed a simulated penetration test as part of a six-member consulting team, performing a comprehensive assessment of a segmented enterprise network to identify and report security vulnerabilities.
• Used tools from the Kali Linux distribution — including Nmap, Netcat, and Hydra — to enumerate 4 separate subnets and scan over 1,000 IP addresses, identifying open ports and potential attack vectors.