🚀 Python Developer | Software Engineer | Cybersecurity Researcher | AI Security Engineer
🔐 Ethical Hacker | 🤖 AI Red Team Operator | 🧠 Prompt Engineer | ⚡ Open Source Contributor
I am a Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Researcher, and AI Security Engineer with 3+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, AI-powered applications, offensive security research, and automation engineering.
My expertise includes building secure web applications, AI-powered platforms, Local LLM solutions, RAG systems, automation workflows, and conducting penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and security research.
I actively contribute to open-source projects, security tooling, CI/CD improvements, and modern AI infrastructure while focusing on secure and scalable software development.
- 🤖 AI Security Engineering
- 🔥 AI Red Teaming
- 🧠 Local LLM Infrastructure
- 📚 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- ⚡ FastAPI & Django Backend Development
- 🔐 Offensive Security Research
- 🛡️ Application Security & OWASP Testing
- 🚀 Open Source Contributions
- 🐍 Python
- ⚡ FastAPI
- 🌐 Django
- 🔥 Flask
- 🧩 Django REST Framework (DRF)
- 🔄 REST API Design & Development
- 🏗️ Backend Architecture
- ⚙️ Automation Systems
- 📊 API Optimization
- 🔐 Secure Application Development
- 🧠 Prompt Engineering
- 🤖 AI Application Development
- 📚 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- 🗄️ Vector Databases & Embeddings
- 🔥 Ollama & Local LLM Deployment
- 🧠 Mistral & Open Source LLMs
- 🤖 AI Security Engineering
- 🔴 AI Red Team Operations
- ⚡ Workflow Automation
- 🔗 N8N Automation
- 🗣️ NLP-Based Applications
- 🛡️ Penetration Testing
- 🔍 Vulnerability Assessment
- 🎯 Bug Bounty Hunting
- 🧠 Threat Analysis
- 🔥 OWASP Top 10 Testing
- 🐚 Bash & Shell Scripting
- 🔎 Security Auditing
- 🚨 Secure Code Review
- ⚔️ Offensive Security Research
- 🔒 Responsible Disclosure
StepSharp Digital (July 2025 – Present)
- Developed secure backend applications and APIs
- Conducted vulnerability assessments and security reviews
- Built automation systems and internal tooling
- Coordinated technical projects and development workflows
- Integrated AI-powered features into production applications
DevVerx (Jan 2025 – Mar 2025)
- Led Django application development
- Built scalable REST APIs
- Improved database performance and architecture
- Managed technical implementation workflows
- Delivered HRMS and automation solutions
Code Circle (Pvt) Ltd (Oct 2023 – Jan 2025)
- Developed full-stack applications using Django & JavaScript
- Built AI-powered software products
- Created responsive frontend interfaces
- Optimized APIs and backend performance
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams
- Fully local Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform
- Built using FastAPI, Ollama, Mistral and Embeddings
- Portable SSD deployment architecture
- Offline AI inference with privacy-first design
- AI-powered log analysis platform
- Offline threat detection and anomaly analysis
- Local LLM processing
- Privacy-focused architecture
- AI-assisted secure code review platform
- OWASP Top 10 aligned vulnerability checks
- Static security analysis workflows
- Secure development recommendations
- Automated question generation
- AI-based candidate evaluation
- Intelligent scoring system
- Multi-role interview support
- AI image recognition system
- Dynamic image processing workflows
- Flask-powered backend architecture
- Real-time AI chatbot
- Voice interaction support
- Responsive frontend architecture
- Django-powered backend
- Authentication & Authorization
- Full CRUD Functionality
- Role-Based Access Control
- Workflow Management
Modules Included:
- Reconnaissance
- Threat Analysis
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Security Automation
- System Information Scanning
- Telegram Wallet Security Research
- Crypto.com XSS Vulnerability Discovery
- Production Server Pentesting (Propteq.ai)
- Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure
- CPython Documentation Contributions
- Celery Bug Fixes & Documentation Improvements
- Security Workflow Enhancements
- CI/CD Automation Improvements
- Open Source Security Research
- Community Issue Resolution
- Python Django Development — Azad Chaiwala Institute
- Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking — CYBRARY
- Master in ChatGPT — UNIATHENA
- Prompt Engineering — Udemy
- Certified Ethical Hacker (Cisco)
- Python Django Developer
- Software Engineer (HackerRank)
- Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking (CYBRARY)
- Master in ChatGPT (UNIATHENA)
- Web Development Intern (The Sparks Foundation)
💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zain-nadeem786
📧 Email: zainnadeemzainnadeem80@gmail.com
🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/zainnadeem786
I enjoy building secure systems, breaking vulnerable ones ethically, experimenting with local AI infrastructure, and automating repetitive work through code.