Luong NGUYEN
Agentic AI & Security Engineer
Senior software engineer with 15+ years in security and AI, from packet inspection in C to fine-tuned language models and AI agents. Lead developer on EU R&D projects; author of claude-howto (40k+ GitHub stars).
Professional Experience
Montimage
2014 – Present
Senior Software Engineer · Paris, France
- LLM adaptation: Built a fine-tuning pipeline for security-focused small models (synthetic data, LLM-as-judge, Unsloth/LoRA), run locally via Ollama for phishing detection
- MCP servers: Created mitre-mcp and sec-mcp (PyPI, official MCP Registry), giving AI assistants MITRE ATT&CK knowledge and threat-intelligence checks
- Network security: Lead developer of MMT-DPI, Montimage's C deep packet inspection engine (~80% of commits since 2015), incl. its 2026 hardening overhaul
- Phishing defense: Built a gamified awareness-training platform (5 languages), an LLM-based email analysis service and the GEIGER cyber range (900+ users)
- Digital twins: Lead developer of COGNIMAN industrial pilot software and the secSIM cybersecurity twin platform; sole developer of the TaS IoT test platform
- Community: Organizing Committee, IEEE CloudCom 2026 and IFIP ICTSS 2026 (Paris); built both conferences' registration and payment platforms
EU R&D Projects (H2020 · Horizon Europe · Digital Europe)
Percevio · Full-Stack Developer · Paris
Mar 2014 – Feb 2016
- WebRTC-based P2P content delivery network, video conferencing and live broadcasting
FPT Software / VTC Online · Software Developer · Hanoi
May 2011 – Apr 2012
- Developed Java and Android applications; led small development teams
Open Source & Products
43k+ GitHub stars · ~1k followers · github.com/luongnv89
- claude-howto: Visual guide to Claude Code; 40k+ stars, 5k+ forks, #1 on GitHub Trending
- asm: Skill manager for AI coding agents across 21 platforms (npm); 900+ stars
- Agent tooling: pi-extensions, skills, context-stats and sleek-ui; each 100+ stars
- Apps: Ask Milo, TextWiz, CUStats (App Store); VS Code extensions, 2,000+ installs
Selected Publications
ICTSS 2026SecSIM: A Digital Twin Management System for Simulation-Driven Cybersecurity Assessment
ARES 2025LLMs in Security Testing and Monitoring: An Initial Study
IFIP IoT 2024SINDIT: A Framework for Knowledge Graph-Based Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing
QUATIC 2022Digital Twin for IoT Environments: A Testing and Simulation Tool
Book, 2021Validation, Verification and Root-Cause Analysis, in DevOps for Trustworthy Smart IoT Systems
IEEE TIFS 2019Reliable Detection of Interest Flooding Attack in Real Deployment of Named Data Networking
WF-IoT 2014DPWSim: A Simulation Toolkit for IoT Applications Using Devices Profile for Web Services