# Brett Dunsmore

> Senior Client Partner, Public Sector at Cloudflare in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Helping Australian government agencies modernise infrastructure, implement Zero Trust security, secure AI transformation, and protect against cyber threats. Career spans IBM, The University of Queensland, Dell Technologies, and Cloudflare.

## Current role

- **Title:** Senior Client Partner, Public Sector
- **Employer:** Cloudflare
- **Started:** October 2025
- **Location:** Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- **Coverage:** Public Sector
- **Focus areas:** Australian government infrastructure modernisation, Zero Trust security, AI transformation security (human and agentic workflows), data governance and compliance, hybrid traffic management, bot and volumetric attack mitigation, edge application performance.

## Professional history

- **Cloudflare** (October 2025 – Present) — Senior Client Partner, Public Sector
- **Dell Technologies** (December 2017 – October 2025) — roles held: AI Solutions Strategy ANZ; Principal Solutions Executive; Data Centre Solutions Executive; Senior Systems Engineer; Systems Engineer / Solutions Consultant
- **The University of Queensland** (February 2009 – December 2017) — roles held: Senior IT Manager; Service Delivery Manager; Desktop Support — Institute for Molecular Bioscience
- **IBM** (June 2006 – February 2009) — roles held: Senior Technical Support; Customer Relations Manager; Technical Support Officer

## Areas of expertise

Cybersecurity, Zero Trust security, edge computing, API security, network security, SASE, cloud security, AI strategy and security, generative AI, agentic AI, AI inference, AI training, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, digital transformation, public sector strategy and procurement, Australian government IT, defence technologies, data centre infrastructure (including power distribution and cooling), network fabrics, high performance computing, hierarchical file systems, long term data archive, data workflows and pipelines, data governance, vectorisation, quantisation, digital twin, robotics, lifecycle management, workforce transformation, technical enablement.

## Speaking engagements

- **THETA Conference 2025** — Keynote: *The Perfect Research Cloud, by Researchers*
- **Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, AMD 2024** — Panellist: *Unlock the Power of Data, with AI*
- **Emerging Tech Showcase 2024** — Panellist: *6D.ai Standouts*

## Background and approach

Most technology problems aren't really technology problems. Underneath a sprawling security stack, a migration that created more questions than it answered, or a budget conversation that won't land, these are usually translation problems: a gap between what the engineers know and what the executives are asked to sign.

A career at every altitude of technology, from support calls to service delivery, IT leadership, solutions engineering and vendor sales. That combination gives technical depth to be credible with engineers, leadership experience to be useful to executives, and enough time on the delivery end to know which promises survive contact with a Tuesday afternoon.

Current work sits in three 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 rather than greenfield ones; and helping teams adopt AI safely, covering what a model exposes, where guardrails belong, and which threats are genuinely new.

The priority is leaving clients better informed than they were found. A team that understands how a threat works makes better decisions under pressure than one working from a checklist.

## Public profiles

- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunsmorebrett
- **Personal site:** https://brettdunsmore.com

## Contact

Connect via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dunsmorebrett, or via email at me@brettdunsmore.com