# Brett Dunsmore

Current: Senior Client Partner, Public Sector · Cloudflare
Brisbane, QLD, Australia

I help Australian government and enterprise teams secure what they've already built: Zero Trust that works in real environments, protection at the edge, and AI adoption that doesn't outrun its governance.

- **Now** · Cloudflare, Public Sector
- **20 yrs** · IBM → UQ → Dell → Cloudflare
- **Span** · Management, Consulting, Data Centre, Sales

## What I'm working on

Australian agencies are being asked to adopt AI faster than they can govern it, on infrastructure that was never built to face the public internet. That gap is where I work: what gets exposed, to whom, and on whose terms.

- **Secure AI adoption** — securing AI transformation across human and agentic workflows, reviewing data governance and compliance so agencies can adopt AI with confidence, not caveats. *Generative & Agentic AI, Data Governance, Compliance.*
- **Zero Trust** — making Zero Trust practical: access built on identity and sensible policy, so corporate data stays protected wherever people work best. *Zero Trust, SASE, Identity & Access.*
- **Edge and resilience** — managing traffic across hybrid environments, handling real threats like bots and volumetric attacks, and lifting application performance at the edge. *Edge Computing, Bot & DDoS Mitigation, API Security.*

## Speaking

- **THETA Conference · 2025 · Keynote** — The Perfect Research Cloud, by Researchers ([video](https://youtu.be/4Vt7Q0vz5Y0))
- **Dell · NVIDIA · AMD · 2024 · Panellist** — Unlock the Power of Data, with AI ([video](https://youtu.be/S5ZZAT2GqQQ))
- **Emerging Tech Showcase · 2024 · Panellist** — 6D.ai · Standouts Panel ([video](https://youtu.be/SmZTZ2SzWLc))

## Career

**Cloudflare** · Oct 2025 – Present
Australian state and federal government, named higher education
- Senior Client Partner, Public Sector QLD/ACT/NT · 2025 –

Capabilities: Cybersecurity, Zero Trust, Edge Computing, API Security, SASE, Public Sector Strategy

**Dell Technologies** · Dec 2017 – Oct 2025
Government, utilities, higher education and large enterprise
- AI Solutions Strategy (NVIDIA & AMD), ANZ / APJ · 2024 – 2025
- Principal Solutions Executive · 2022 – 2024
- Data Centre Solutions Executive · 2021 – 2022
- Senior Systems Engineer · 2019 – 2021
- Systems Engineer / Solutions Consultant · 2017 – 2019

Capabilities: Generative & Agentic AI, Inference & Training, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Vectorisation & Quantisation, Data Centre Design, Network Fabrics, Power & Cooling, Procurement

**The University of Queensland** · Feb 2009 – Dec 2017
Institute for Molecular Bioscience — multidisciplinary life science research
- Senior IT Manager · 2012 – 2017
- Service Delivery Manager · 2010 – 2012
- Desktop Support · 2009 – 2010

Capabilities: People Leadership, Service Delivery, High Performance Computing, Hierarchical File Systems, Long Term Archive, Data Pipelines

**IBM** · Jun 2006 – Feb 2009
L3/4 technical support, quality assurance and customer experience
- Senior Technical Support · 2008 – 2009
- Customer Relations Manager · 2007 – 2008
- Technical Support Officer · 2006 – 2007

Capabilities: Escalation Management, Quality Assurance, Customer Experience, Technical Enablement

## How I work

Most technology problems aren't really technology problems. A security stack grown to fourteen tools nobody owns. A migration that answered one question and created six. A team that knows what's broken but can't get the budget conversation to land. Underneath, these are translation problems: a gap between what the engineers know and what the executives are asked to sign.

I've worked at every altitude of technology, from support calls to service delivery, IT leadership, solution engineering and vendor sales. That gives me the technical depth to be credible with your engineers, the leadership experience to be useful to your executives, and enough time on the delivery end to know which promises survive contact with a Tuesday afternoon.

The work sits in a few places. Protecting and accelerating edge applications, where security and performance rarely have to be a trade-off. Bringing Zero Trust and defence in depth into environments that already exist, not the greenfield versions from vendor slides. And helping teams get to yes on AI safely: what a model exposes, where the guardrails belong, and which threats are genuinely new.

What I care about most is leaving clients better informed than I found them. Not dependent on me, informed. A team that understands how a threat works makes better decisions under pressure than one working from a checklist, long after I've moved on.

If your environment has quietly become more complicated than anyone intended, get in touch.

## Contact

- Email: me@brettdunsmore.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunsmorebrett
- CV: https://brettdunsmore.com/assets/BD_CV_2026.pdf

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