Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy is a PhD graduate of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering where he worked with Prof. Justin Cappos on software update security. He led the specification for Uptane, which aims to secure software updates for automobiles. He also worked on improving the security and efficiency of The Update Framework (TUF), a predecessor to Uptane, which is being integrated by Haskell, OCaml, Ruby, Rust, and Python, and is being used in production by LEAP, Flynn, VMware, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, CoreOS, and Docker.
