Radhika Ravindranath – IJCT Reviewer
Radhika Ravindranath – CISSP | Technical Program Manager | Google
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/radhikaravindranath
Professional Experience
- Technical Program Manager, Security and Privacy, Google (Dec 2021 – Present)
- Spearheaded and submitted 7 patents to USPTO and 1 defensible publication in Cybersecurity and Privacy. These patents are intended to be critical to Google and have potential revenue generating applications.
- Revamped GCP PDD based on latest Privacy compliance requirements and built foundational privacy risk scoring and automation algorithm to reduce manual toil for over 7000 privacy reviews YoY.
- Managed 2 privacy communities (Data Analytics and Business Applications Products), each with ~5 team contributors to review and provide privacy guidance to Google cloud platform product launches.
- Served as Cloud Privacy TPM for 608+ GCP product teams for 3rd party Cookie deprecation. Conducted workshops with product teams to advise on Chrome’s 3rd party cookie depreciation and its impact.
- Part-time resource on the Service Data Protection(SDP) workstream in Google Cloud. Collaborated with engineering teams to ensure SDP compliance in GCP products.
- Identified, monitored, and communicated progress, risks, and mitigations to leadership, product teams, and security teams.
- Manager, Cyber Security and Privacy, PwC (Aug 2018 – Dec 2021)
- Designed roadmap and operationalized 1st Line of defense technology risk management function at one of the largest multi-national banks in response to heightened OCC scrutiny while moving security infrastructure to public cloud.
- Led 2 teams of 3 to review Company’s cloud compliance security & privacy requirements (such as Identify & Access, Vulnerability Management, Containerization, Data protection, Cloud Compliance).
- Developed IT Risk Appetite Statement, Risk Appetite Metrics, and Key Risk Indicators to support the client’s 2nd LoD technology risk management function in the remediation of OCC regulatory findings.
- Launched online compliance tracking application for organization leadership to gamify HITRUST compliance metrics across enterprise lines of business (LOB) and boost compliance within an 8000+ insurance company.
- Developed and implemented threat scoring methodology to calculate security risk scores across departments in the organization, gamify the user experience, and boost compliance.
- Conceptualized product vision, strategic product roadmap to reduce manual tool rationalization efforts and promote standardization across security assessments.
- Partnered with Engineering, Marketing, Legal, UX stakeholders to identify business and technical requirements such as key personas (PwC Admin, Team Member, read-only), product features, use cases, technical requirements, and plan sprints to build minimum viable product (MVP) using the Microsoft technology stack.
- Directed engineering team to develop and test MVP. The application is currently being utilized as a PwC tools rationalization service at 3 client organizations.
- Consultant, Cyber Risk, Deloitte (Mar 2016 – Jul 2018)
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to identify security data sources and use cases. Facilitated end-to-end data ingestion into the SIEM, quality assurance, and content development for a global Splunk SIEM deployment for SOC.
- Interviewed multiple client cyber teams at large firms across Technology, Financial, and Consumer Product domains to perform security & privacy risk assessments and build future state roadmaps based on industry standards (NIST, ISO, FedRAMP).
- Business Analyst, Visual BI Solutions (Jun 2013 – Jun 2014)
- Conceptualized storyboard for data visualizations on Dashboards by analyzing industry-specific Key Performance Metrics (KPIs/KRIs) for SAP HANA and SAP BW data sources.
Education
- Master of Information Systems Management, Carnegie Mellon University (Dec 2015)
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, Anna University (Jun 2013)
Technical Certifications
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Google Cloud Platforms Fundamentals Certification
- ITIL Foundation Level for IT Service Management
- AWS Technical Professional & Business Professional
Publications
- Prepaid travel journeys with Geo navigation services – TD Commons – Published Date: Feb 6, 2023
- Security and Privacy Considerations of Metadata – International Journal of Computer Techniques – Published Date: Nov 1, 2024
Other Activities
- Globee Technology Awards Judge 2024
- Judge for 17th Annual 2024 Globee Awards for Women in Business
- Google’s Indigo Privacy Conference Speaker 2024
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