SYSTEMS ONLINE · AI × SECURITY

Justin
Swinney

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Security engineer with enterprise SOC experience in threat detection and incident response — now building AI-driven security tooling and agents with guardrails baked in.

🛡️ Active Top Secret Security Clearance 📍 Leonardtown, MD 🎯 SOC → AI
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Who I Am

I'm a security engineer with 6+ years of enterprise SOC experience — real-time threat detection, incident response, and security control validation across cloud and on-prem environments at Caterpillar scale.

My day job is keeping attackers out and finding the ones who slip through: SIEM engineering, MITRE ATT&CK-driven threat hunting, NIST compliance. My current obsession is the intersection where I think the next decade of security lives — AI agents and LLM tooling built with security-first guardrails, and using AI to make detection faster and smarter.

I hold an Active Top Secret Security Clearance and certifications across security, cloud, and infrastructure.

6+Years SOC Experience
50+Daily Security Events
5Certifications
Top 50Splunk BOTS (2019)
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Technical Arsenal

🛰️ Detection & SIEM

Splunk SIEMELK StackCrowdStrike FalconIDS/IPS · Snort · ZeekReal-time DetectionAlert Tuning

🕵️ Response & Threat Intel

Event CorrelationMITRE ATT&CKThreat HuntingRoot Cause AnalysisC2 DetectionForensics

☁️ Cloud & Compliance

AWS SecurityCloudTrail & GuardDutyNIST SP 800-53NIST 800-171RMF & CONMONControl Validation

🤖 AI & Automation

AI AgentsLLM IntegrationPrompt HardeningPowerShellPythonTerraform
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Featured Work

Notable projects, wins, and certifications — every entry here was shipped through my AI intake pipeline. Latest first.

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Certifications

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Security+

CompTIA
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CySA+

CompTIACS0-004 · 2026
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AWS SAA-C03

Amazon Web Services
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Network+

CompTIA
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Terraform Associate

HashiCorp
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Top Secret Clearance

U.S. Government

Notable Achievements

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Top 50 Splunk Boss of the SOC — 1000+ participants (2019)

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30-Person Cyber Bootcamp instructor-led program (2018)

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1st Place DOE CyberFire CTF (2021)

DEF CON 27 Red Team (2019)

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Let's Work Together

Hiring, collaborating, or building something in the AI × security space — my inbox is open.

LocationLeonardtown, MD
Clearance Active Top Secret Security Clearance