Justin Gerace
Staff Security Engineer at Lambda
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Gerace is a Staff Security Engineer with 12 years of experience building foundational security systems for high-scale environments, currently based in Irvine, CA. He has led security architecture and programmatic efforts at Meta and Twitch, shaping asset management, cloud posture, data classification, and vulnerability programs that protect billions of assets. Comfortable as a hands-on tech lead, Justin blends deep infrastructure knowledge—especially AWS native platforms—and pragmatic security engineering to drive scalable, auditable controls. His open-source contributions to the prominent osquery project demonstrate practical OS-level telemetry and cross-distro build expertise, reflecting a knack for bridging developer tooling and operational security.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Networking and System Administration, BS Applied Networking and System Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
system-administration10
system10
administrator10
script10
bash10
administration10
admin10
sys10
build-automation10
cicd10
osquery9
security5
intrusion-detection5
network-intrusion-detection5
monitoring5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Administrator
DevOps Engineer & System AdministratorContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Justin's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the build and deployment process for the osquery project across different Linux distributions. They added support for Scientific Linux, including installation scripts and build configurations. Furthermore, the user addressed build process issues and added dependencies for various Linux versions, ensuring the project's compatibility and maintainability across diverse operating system environments. They also improved the shell history table and disk encryption status queries.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
justintime32/osquery
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
instrumentationoperating-systemsqloperatingmonitoring
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