Zara Ahmad-Post

Zara Ahmad-Post is a skilled professional in security data science, currently employed by DigitalOcean since March 2022, where Zara focuses on research-driven solutions to security challenges and co-leads the DO data science working group. As an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arizona since August 2023, Zara teaches a graduate-level course on cloud computing. Previously, at MITRE, Zara served as a Cyber Security Engineer and Cyber Assessment Intern, employing various cybersecurity frameworks to develop a security policy and an NLP-based model for cyber assessment. Zara also contributed as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Arizona, researching political disinformation and creating a deep-learning algorithm for propaganda detection. Earlier career experience includes serving as a Technical Solutions Architect and Technical Analyst at Carnegie Hall, where Zara managed cloud initiatives and engineered secure information systems. Zara holds a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor's of Music in Viola Performance from Indiana University Bloomington.