Leila Amari, ai security engineer

Leila Amari

Senior AI Security Engineer

Tunis, Tunisia · Africa/Tunis (UTC+1) · 7 years of experience

Leila focuses on securing AI applications, data paths, model supply chains, and agent permissions.

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Why this profile fits

AI-specific threat modeling

Covers prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, unsafe tool use, model supply chains, and excessive agency.

Least-privilege architecture

Scopes identities, tools, data access, secrets, and network paths to the minimum required for each workload.

Adversarial validation

Turns abuse cases and incidents into repeatable tests, monitoring signals, and response playbooks.

Relevant toolkit

Threat ModelingIAMKubernetes SecurityLLM Red TeamingSIEM

Delivery evidence

Selected work

AI Workload Identity Migration

B2B SaaS

Designed and delivered a AI security programme focused on secrets and key management for AI; eliminated long-lived model-provider keys from production workloads using workload identity. The release included threat models, least-privilege controls, adversarial tests, logging, and incident playbooks mapped to OWASP guidance.

Threat ModelingPython

Provider Key Rotation Service

B2B SaaS operations

Built the supporting control and measurement layer for the primary system, covering review queues, regression checks, operational visibility, and a documented handoff to the owning team.

Threat ModelingKubernetes Security
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Relevant experience

Career timeline

Senior AI Security Engineer

2024–Present

Devlyn client assignments · Remote

  • Led secrets and key management for AI delivery for a B2B SaaS team and eliminated long-lived model-provider keys from production workloads using workload identity.

AI Security Engineer

2020–2023

B2B SaaS product company (confidential) · Tunis, Tunisia

  • Built production systems in B2B SaaS, with increasing ownership of reliability, testing, and stakeholder delivery.

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Relevant experience by skill

Threat Modeling7 years
Python6 years
IAM5 years
Kubernetes Security4 years
LLM Red Teaming7 years
SIEM6 years
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Languages

PythonTypeScriptSQLBash

Frameworks

PythonIAMKubernetes SecurityOPAVaultSemgrep

Tools

Burp SuiteFalcoTerraformGitHub ActionsDocker

Platforms

AWSGoogle CloudAzureKubernetes

Storage

VaultS3PostgreSQLSecurity Lake

Paradigms

Secure-by-design AIZero trustAdversarial testingSupply-chain security

Credentials

Certifications

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Google Cloud · 2026 · Certified

Certified Cloud Security Professional

ISC2 · 2025 · Certified

Communication

Languages

English

Fluent

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