Jolene Zhou

Security Engineer at Telstra · Application security · IAM, SAST

Telstra

Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)

3+ years experience

Ateneo de Manila University

English

Learning Collaborating

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Overview

I've spent 3 years on application security - first at Maybank, now at Telstra. Grew the product security team from 5 to 16 engineers. Previously at Maybank. Most at home with Burp Suite and SAST.

Good reasons to reach out

Collaborators for my side project
Mentors who have done this before
Questions about application security
Speaking or podcast invitations
Thoughtful intros to people in my field

Please don't message about

SEO and link-building offers
Recruiters for roles outside my stack
Courses and coaching offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills

cloud securitySASTIAMBurp Suite

LearningLearning something

closes in 3 months

Learning IAM - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal: Move from individual contributor to leading a small product security team.
Where I am now: Beginner
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in application security for a few years
Cadence: Monthly
What I can offer back: Introductions in my college network

3 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Sydney, Australia · remote OKiamcloud securityburp suite

Open

CollaboratingLooking to collaborate

closes in 3 months

Building a free course on IAM for students - need co-instructors

Project: A free course on IAM for students - need co-instructors
Skills needed: Burp Suite, Design
Time commitment: Weekends
Outcome: Conference talk

No money involved, just a good project. Async-first.

Sydney, Australiaiamburp suitesast

Open

Experience

Security Engineer
Nov 2025 - Present
Telstra · 11 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Reduced cloud spend on product security by 42% in two quarters.
- Brought on-call pages for product security down from 18 a week to 3.
- Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 52 million requests a day.
Security Engineer
Aug 2023 - Aug 2025
Maybank · 2 yr · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
- Reduced cloud spend on product security by 22% in two quarters.
- Shipped 7 launches on the product security team without a rollback.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app

2025

Built with SAST and cloud security. 3885 people used it last year.

Open-source IAM toolkit

2023

A small library for application security that 335 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Ateneo de Manila University
BS, Computer Science
2018 - 2022

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