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Damian Villarreal

Security Operations  ,  Cloud & AI Security Architecture

RSOC analyst lead and CS graduate researcher. I run detection & response across 20,000+ endpoints and build at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and security architecture — including ThreatScaper, an AI-powered threat-intelligence enrichment tool.

Focus Areas

Where I operate

Security Operations

Detection & response, threat hunting, and malware analysis across a 20,000+ endpoint environment. Leading student analysts at a regional SOC.

Detection & ResponseThreat HuntingSIEMMalware AnalysisIncident Response

Cloud Architecture

Multi-cloud security and infrastructure-as-code across AWS, Azure, and GCP — Wazuh monitoring, zero-trust design, and secure connectivity at scale.

AWSAzureGCPTerraformZero TrustWazuh

Applied AI

Domain-adaptive LLM pre-training and agentic tooling for security operations — from NeMo pipelines to ML anomaly detection in production defenses.

LLMsDAPT / NeMoAgentic ToolingAnomaly Detection

Speaking

Presentations & talks

SecOps

Smarter SecOps: Leveraging Private, Federated Transfer Learning

BSides RGV 2026

2026

AI Security

Federated Domain-Adaptive Pre-Training for Privacy-Preserving Security Language Models in Multi-Tenant Environments

UTRGV STEM Conference

April 2026

Red Team

Empire C2

6th Annual BSides RGV

May 31, 2025

Zero Trust

Zero-Trust at the Edge: Privacy-First Security for IoT Surveillance

Region One ESC Cybersecurity Summit

Edinburg, TX · Oct 30, 2025

Research

Current work

AI SecurityActive

FeDAPT: Federated Domain-Adaptive Pre-Training for Privacy-Preserving Security Language Models in Multi-Tenant Environments

Training security-domain language models across multiple tenants without sharing raw data — combining federated learning with domain-adaptive pre-training to preserve privacy in multi-tenant SOC environments.

HCIDesigning

AI as Co-Presenter: Designing for Real-Time Human-AI Collaborative Presentation Delivery

Does an AI co-presenter reduce presenter anxiety and cognitive load while maintaining audience engagement and perceived authenticity? Measured via NASA-TLX, self-report, and audience perception. Targeting CHI / CSCW.

Contact

Let's build something together

Open to cloud, AI, and security-architecture roles. Reach out — or read the full story on my résumé.