Ayrton Campos J. R.

About Ayrton Campos J. R.

I\'m an AI-Native cybersecurity engineer at the intersection of AI and industrial control systems—a weird niche, but it turns out factories need both.The last couple years have been all about OT security: SCADA networks, PLCs, manufacturing plants where downtime costs millions per hour. I build AI-powered tools that make the work actually manageable—document intelligence pipelines that process ICS assessments in seconds instead of weeks, RAG systems using PostgreSQL and vector databases for instant threat intelligence lookups, and automated compliance mapping against IEC 62443 and NIST 800-82.A big part of my work is data analysis—pulling together network configs, device inventories, traffic captures, and compliance documentation from multiple sources, then using LLMs and AI agents to make sense of it all. I\'ve built systems that correlate firewall rules with PLC configurations, identify supply chain risks by device manufacturer, and auto-generate security assessments that used to take weeks of manual work.Here\'s the thing about ICS/OT environments: they generate mountains of data, but nobody\'s looking at it holistically. Switch configs, Armis exports, PCAP captures, vendor spreadsheets, compliance docs—it\'s scattered everywhere. My main skill is crunching all of that into a single picture of reality. What\'s actually on the network versus what\'s documented. Where the real risks live. What equipment is talking to what. From that true inventory, you see the actual state of the business—not what the diagrams say, but what\'s really happening on the plant floor.On the technical side, I work with AWS (Lambda, Bedrock, Textract), integrate LLMs through Ollama and Bedrock for automated analysis, and deploy platforms like Dragos, Armis, and Palo Alto Networks across multi-site industrial environments. Day-to-day involves designing network segmentation using the Purdue Model, analyzing packet captures, wrangling messy Excel spreadsheets into something useful, and helping plant engineers and security teams actually talk to each other.I\'m drawn to small, fast-moving teams where you wear multiple hats and fix real problems instead of attending meetings about meetings. My ideal role is somewhere I can combine cybersecurity, infrastructure automation, and AI to build things that actually work—preferably in a startup or high-growth environment where \"figure it out\" is the operating principle.If you\'re working on AI security tools, industrial cybersecurity, or building infrastructure that needs to be both secure and scalable, let\'s talk.

Experience

1. Sr Security & Network Consultant

   Stratascale

   Sep 2022 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Engineered multi-source data aggregation engine correlating PCAP analyses, device inventories, firewall/PLC configurations, and compliance documentation, mapping findings to NIST 800-82, SANS ICS Controls, and IEC 62443 while identifying manufacturers by country for supply chain risk assessment and discovering MAC-based device counting methodology• Architected global manufacturing network segmentation implementing Purdue Model zone separation across processing lines and control systems, delivering dual-path recommendations balancing IEC 62443 standards with practical deployment while integrating ARMIS visibility platform and designing east-west firewall controls• Designed and deployed Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager architectures integrating Armis OT security solutions for enterprise clients across IT/OT environments, serving as primary vendor liaison for technical escalations and delivering segmentation projects improving manufacturing floor resilience• Integrated large language models and AI agents into security workflows using Ollama and AWS Bedrock, enabling AI-driven PCAP analysis, network diagram extraction, and compliance documentation generation across multi-site manufacturing environments• Architected FlowMaticConverter AWS document intelligence pipeline using Lambda, Bedrock, and Textract to process ICS/OT assessments, preserving textual and visual knowledge through AI-powered analysis with intelligent routing achieving 60-80% cost optimization• Deployed production PostgreSQL hybrid RAG infrastructure combining pgvector for GPU-accelerated semantic search with native full-text indexing and Reciprocal Rank Fusion, enabling rapid threat intelligence correlation and compliance documentation retrieval across multi-site industrial environments• Designed edge AI solutions using NVIDIA Jetson and local inference models for privacy-preserving threat detection in air-gapped operational technology networks

Education

• ESPM Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business management and marketing

  1994 — 2000

• City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College

  Associate’s Degree

  2013 — 2014

• Instituto Monitor

  Electronics Technician, Electronics

  2012 — 2013

• Northeastern Illinois University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Networks & Security

  2014

Skills

• After Effects
• Photoshop
• Sketchup
• Marketing Strategy
• Team Management
• Account Management
• Adobe Premiere
• Digital Signage
• Lightroom
• Telecommunications
• Lutron
• Final Cut Pro
• Bang & Olufsen
• A/V System Design
• Contract Negotiation
• Business Development
• Crestron
• Budgets
• Business Strategy
• Microsoft Excel
• Project Management
• A/V Systems
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Rti
• Home Theater
• Av
• Team Building
• Management
• Urc
• Networking
• Strategic Planning
• Security
• Sales Management
• Control 4
• Amx
• Technology
• Dreamweaver
• Project Planning
• Autocad