Justice Gaines

IRUN — Incident Response University Network

Co-leading a community incident response help center at the University of Oregon — a personal-SOC model for individuals rather than enterprises. Enterprises get SOC teams; individuals get nothing to call when something goes wrong.

SOC-Risk-Engine

A custom Python risk engine for the UO Teaching SOC, built on TheHive, MISP, and Cortex to automate threat scoring and response. Dual-profile scoring — ALE models for organizations, identity-theft exposure for individuals — with Docker Compose, CI, and onboarding docs.

NIST AI RMF Implementation

A compliance implementation of OpenClaw, aligning AI orchestration with NIST AI Risk Management standards.

Agent Hive

Hackathon team project at QuackHacks 2025 — won "Best Implementation of Google Gemini API" at MLH. An AI orchestrator that decomposes natural-language requests into executable workflow chains, built on top of n8n's workflow engine.

Partner Solutions Engineer Intern | SentinelOne

Jun 2026 – Aug 2026

• Architected the Partner Success Kit, a unified partner-enablement standard replacing the siloed approaches that separate partner-facing teams had each built during the company's growth.
• Ran discovery with 10+ stakeholders across two MSSP partners, which restructured the work into two components: a partner handbook replacement for onboarding, and a recurring Partner Health Check that turns existing-partner feedback into a product-development input.
• Specified the handoff routing Health Check output into the Solutions Engineer Innovation Forge for technical success managers, product engineers, and solutions architects.
• Presented the completed kit to the Solutions Engineering organization, Talent Acquisition, and the full intern cohort.

Cybersecurity Compliance Coordinator | BizCare, Inc.

Dec 2024 – Present

• Own compliance across a 22-client book, running control automation over 100+ endpoints and a third-party risk management program on Secureframe.
• Manage organizational alignment with industry-standard frameworks like CIS IG1 and conduct regular internal risk assessments.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to implement security controls and document compliance milestones.

Founding SOC Analyst | UO Teaching SOC

Oct 2025 – Jun 2026

• Contributed to the architecture and operational deployment of the university's first student-run security operations center, maintaining custom Grafana dashboards to visualize endpoint security data for the team.
• Monitored and analyzed real-time telemetry using SentinelOne to mitigate threats across university infrastructure, collaborating on incident response workflows and threat-hunting standard operating procedures.

Student Compliance Analyst | UO Risk Clinic

Oct 2025 – Jun 2026

• Managed the Risk Clinic's Drupal website and spearheaded stakeholder engagement by conducting targeted webinars to educate critical infrastructure clients on State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) funding.
• Supported non-technical risk assessments by evaluating programmatic controls, collaborating directly with the Oregon branch of CISA to ensure evaluation procedures aligned with Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs).

Owner & Founder | Cybersecurity R&D Group, LLC

• Manage business operations, payroll, and strategic research for a specialized cybersecurity S-Corp.
• Lead R&D initiatives focusing on security automation and threat intelligence integration.