Amiran Alavidze
Director Of Security Engineering at Zello
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAmiran Alavidze is a seasoned security leader with over 20 years devoted to information security and nearly a decade in senior engineering and director roles across SaaS, cloud, and industrial sectors. Currently Director of Security Engineering at Zello, he previously shaped security programs at AWS, Planview/Tasktop and Sierra Wireless, driving SOC 2/GDPR/FedRAMP compliance, cloud security frameworks, and incident response at scale. He combines pragmatic, business-focused risk management with hands-on technical delivery—designing security architecture, running TRAs, and operationalizing detection and response. A regular conference speaker on pragmatic security, he has deep experience bridging IT controls, security operations and architecture for regulated and cloud-native environments. Based in Vancouver, he also brings a rare mix of engineering roots (MIPT telecoms master’s) and long-standing operational ownership of encryption, DMZ zoning and vendor risk programs.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree Telecommunication Systems and Networks, Masters Degree Telecommunication Systems and Networks at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (70)
command-execution9
autoencoder8
flask8
enumerate8
log4j8
log4shell8
security7
linear-regression7
on-the-fly7
refer7
vulnerability7
java7
ctf7
logistic-regression7
time-machine6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
airman604/jdbc-backdoor
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
A fake JDBC driver that allows OS command execution.
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
databasejavacommand-executionjdbcexecution
airman604/misc
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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