Introduction
Driven by a pursuit of wisdom and continuous learning, I am a Cloud and AI Cybersecurity Specialist focused on building expertise through hands-on experience. I am eager to contribute to the professional landscape in Victoria, Australia, where I aim to apply my technical stack to manage ICT security policies and procedures. My goal is to deliver high-quality security solutions for a global client base while embracing the opportunities found within a stable and growth-oriented environment.
Abdolnabi Zameni
Professional Profile
Effective project and team leadership are among my core strengths, built upon a foundation of personal dedication and precise communication. With a background in the software and telecommunications sectors, I possess the technical insight to guide teams and execute complex tasks successfully.
I have a natural drive to master the technical intricacies of every project. By spending over five years as both a system engineer and a developer, I have cultivated the ability to execute tasks with precision and a unique perspective. Today, I stand as a Cybersecurity Systems Specialist who bridges the gap between deep technical implementation and strategic management. It is a rare combination, but one that provides a distinct advantage in securing complex environments.
Recent Work
Recent Jobs
2026 – now
AI & Cloud Cybersecurity Specialist * Security Architecture & Design:
Serving as the primary Security Architect to design and implement resilient cloud infrastructures, ensuring that all systems align with modern security standards and organizational goals.
- Security Architecture & Zero Trust Design: Serving as the lead Security Architect to design resilient cloud infrastructures using Zero Trust principles (Never Trust, Always Verify). I focus on identity-based access, micro-segmentation, and replacing legacy VPNs with modern secure access solutions.
- Cloudflare Ecosystem Lifecycle: Managing the end-to-end lifecycle of Cloudflare services, including WAF customization, DDoS mitigation, and Cloudflare Access/Gateway to secure the distributed workforce and edge compute environments.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Leveraging Terraform to automate the deployment of secure-by-default infrastructure, ensuring consistency and auditability across AWS and multi-cloud environments.
- Rapid Prototyping & “Vibecoding”: Utilizing Vibecoding techniques—harnessing AI-agentic workflows (like Cursor, Replit Agent, or Claude Code) along with Shell Scripting—to build quick, functional Proof of Concepts (PoCs) for security tools and automation.
- AI Model Guardrailing: Implementing comprehensive guardrails for AI models to mitigate risks such as prompt injection and data leakage, ensuring safe deployment within company projects.
- Shift-Left & CI/CD Hardening: Strengthening the CI/CD pipeline by integrating security early in the lifecycle via automated scanning and Terraform-based compliance checks to catch vulnerabilities before they reach production.
- Observability & Maturity: Developing an observability framework to monitor security controls in real-time, ensuring all tools and processes align with our organizational maturity levels.
- Policy & Design Governance: Establishing “Security and Performance by Design” policies, mandating that security requirements are defined and performance-tested before a single feature is designed.
2019 – now
Founder of Renewablion platform
One of the most stringent possible jobs for a technical person is to build a startup company from the commercial point of view, and here what I did so far:
- Developing a business plan to calculate the expenses, costs and gains with a detail cash flow.
- Building a competition plan with a detail list of SWOTs
- Preparing a marketing plan and marketing strategy to the middle east and north Africa market.
- Hiring employees to start developing MVP of the platform
- Contracting payment and communication platforms with providers of the region.
2017 – now
Team/Tech lead
When it comes to team leadership, it is a must to be one part of a team and not a weak link of the chain. So I had to some stuff first by myself and then led the team-mates to do it.
- Lead DevOps stuff from deploying CI/CD for the project between Github as a repository, Gitlab as a CI/CD pipeline and AWS as a runner with a bastion and some spawns and make it a habit for other team members.
- Lead the migration Cultural Infusion servers to Amazon cloud services (AWS) and all their services from their managed servers on InMotionHosting to AWS based on the requirement.
- Lead the migration from standalone MySql database server on AWS RDS cluster services to use with Cultural Infusion’s newly derived services to maximize their performance/availability and minimize their cost.
- Consultation on their application security matters included penetration tests, programming guideline, remote short time courses, and so on to make their vulnerability at the minimum level.
- Keeping track of the latest technology trends to make their backup services live and work to make a reasonable disaster recovery solution.
- Information/server security consultations for company websites and online projects
Accomplishments
- Enhanced the availability of online services and websites from 95% in 2017 to 99.999 now. This had a direct impact on increasing sales of the company.
- For Cultural Infusion prevent to fall into the situation that put their eggs on one basket and lost all of their services at the same time.
2013 – 2017
ICT services and security specialist
I worked in Iran-net FTTh operator. I was in the position of a specialist, and think of it you should outsource the projects partially with 3rd parties. Hence, it would be best if you learned the art of doing works with others’ hands, so you should start to plan the deployment and think more rather than deploy.
- Participating for designing Fiber Optic Network Security Plan for Internet in Karaj city project having 100000 subscribers;
- Creating Database for Internet Services and Packages to separate the domestic IP Traffic and international internet traffic used by users via AAA and BRAS and Dr.Com and IBSng tools with the purpose of authorisation, authenticating and managing users’ accounts;
- Designing, supervising and coordinating to integrate the available data in Service Provider Systems of BRAS, AAA, IMS and BSS using Microsip, ONMS, MBOSS UTSTARCOM and Call Trace tools;
- Supervising the security of Fiber Optic Network for internet in Tehran International Exhibition Project and designing tools in this regard using Python and also applying corrective measures such as Data Transfer encryption for improving the security of Data Processing Systems used in the Exhibition;
- Developing and implementing an authentication system by Passcode and Hotspot for preventing the penetration and access of unauthorised persons to the sensitive information in Tehran International Exhibition;
- Defining, following up and supervising the implementation of security systems desired by the upper and legislator organisations for Iranian Net Network in Karaj city;
- Preparing the required instructions for using in the field of Database Management related to BSS (CRM, Ecare, Billing) systems and also correct maintenance and data retrieval;
- Performing the required tests on database management systems and checking and debugging them and also making the required decisions for restoring data in case of data loss caused by software and hardware issues.
Accomplishments
- Designing Fiber Optic Network Security Plan for Internet in Karaj city project having 100000 subscribers
- Applying creative corrective measures such as Data Transfer encryption for improving the security of Data Processing Systems used in Tehran International Exhibition
2009 – 2013
ICT security Project manager in IRIB, Iran
I was a project manager in IRIB on information security and webcasting subjects with different varieties of subtitles to make sure the IT services are running smoothly to the end-users. Based on the nature of my projects I was in reseach and development center, international office, overseas stuff, and IT department there quarter by quarter to make sure I know the data flow inside the Organization.
- Studying, checking and ensuring the function of the information and communications security management systems according to the relevant standards.
- Presenting proper plans in order to secure, develop and upgrade the security of the data-center Network and computer systems used in organization.
- Adopting back up preparation strategies from Datacenter Network and computer systems used in organization to be restored in data loss situation.
- Implementing methods for securing the Live Video Streaming Service on the web by UTM software solutions.
- Debugging the security issues and threats arisen in network by lunching internal CERT center and continuous training to the Organization Staffs in the form OFS periodical seminars.
- Auditing the usage of files information and controlling the access to the digitally classified information.
- Performing analyses related to risk evaluation and executing system information processing tests in order to ensure about correct information processes operations.
- Doing data encryption in regard to data transmission for hiding and securing the secret data during transmission
- Preparing ISMS document related to IRIB as a first and only information security guideline and issue it as a book name ISMS implementation in national broadcast of Iran
Skills
I was started with networking skills and then I shifted my skills toward telecom and software engineering so I covered a wide area of knowledge in my professional life and here is the list of them:
Education
2019 – 2023
Tehran University, Iran
My Master’s in Information Technology was an enriching experience, especially diving into courses on cybersecurity and system administration. I was particularly drawn to topics like network security, cryptographic systems, and threat detection. This focus became the centerpiece of my studies, and I dedicated my time to mastering these areas, ensuring I developed both a deep understanding and practical expertise in securing systems and networks.
2005 – 2007
Shomal University, Iran
That was a great journey through the Software engineering courses and I loved it especially network and system administration stuff. So I focused on these matters and all my study spent on them.
2003 – 2005
Sadra Institute of Higher Education, Iran
I was on my very first experience in computer science so I was wandering around different courses finding my interesting field.