Ajay Mohan
Austin
Summary
Experienced Security and GRC TPM with over 10 years of experience bridging gaps between cross-organizational teams, including Engineering, Product, Legal, and Business. Proven ability to ensure alignment on security outcomes while adhering to stringent Payment and Healthcare regulatory standards. Expertise in establishing mechanisms that drive complex, cross-functional programs at an 'Amazon scale,' fostering collaboration among people, processes, and technology. I am committed to delivering impactful results to Customers through ruthless prioritization, providing strategic oversight, and driving the right outcomes.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager (TPM) - Stores Security
Amazon
09.2022 - Current
- Spearheaded the evidence collection and evaluation automation of 150+ manual security controls across critical compliance programs (HIPAA, PCI, Global Payments, SOC, ISO), reducing contact avoidance and resulting in 15 FTE-years of savings within Amazon's Stores Security. [Awarded 'most impactful security outcome' at the One Amazon Security Conference, OASC 2025]
- Established a Compliance Governance Program to optimize the security bar, successfully identifying and eliminating 311 redundant security controls to resolve over-testing during assurance assessments
- Drove through the the launch of 60+ configuration based security controls and 10+ auto-remediation campaigns enabling continuous compliance eliminating the need for manual assurance activities saving assessor and builder team time
- Led the automation of compliance scoping (identifying 'who') for Payment and Healthcare regimes saving 3500 annual hours for compliance specialists
- Served as the cross-functional "connective tissue" between Engineering, Product, Legal, and Business teams, ensuring alignment on security outcomes, driving strategic product transition from a 3rd-party vendor to an in-house 1st-party solution, projecting $5M in Year-over-Year savings and a 40% increase in operational efficiency across 1500 Amazon microservices in Compliance scope
- Establish program reporting mechanisms to meet various stakeholder needs (VP, Director, Sr. Manager) through Monthly / Quarterly business reviews, biweekly stakeholder reviews, weekly / biweekly 2X2 program updates
Senior Technical Consultant - Cyber Risk and Regulatory
PricewaterhouseCoopers
09.2017 - 09.2022
- Defined project strategies, plans, financials, resource requirements, and timelines for multiple client engagements contracted to run in parallel across different teams; present monthly/quarterly leadership meetings with clients including VP of Audit, CIOs and Senior Directors to discuss roadblocks, progress, accomplishments
- Led the Security workstream (team of 3 onshore and 5 offshore analysts) for a $4M project including the design and development of Oracle Cloud security by ideating a new methodology that allows reusability, scalability, and ease of administration
- Ideated, scoped, and designed a scalable automation (valued $330k) of a business process to save an estimated 300 hours a year resulting in cost savings of around $200k in potential regulatory fines and cost of labor
- Understand nuances/integrations with IAM and implemented Single Sign On and configured Multi factor authentication to access client networks for enhanced security and improved end user experience
- Performed application security assessments and built scalable, reusable analytics in Cloud to identify Segregation of Duties conflicts in client IAM configurations and policies
Systems Engineer - Data integration and analytics
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2011 - 04.2015
- Liaised with onshore client counterparts and onshore reporting team to gather business requirements as part of an ERP implementation for a leading US Pet store
- Led a team of 3 analysts to develop scalable integrations to Extract Transform and Load data using custom SQL queries in ETL between critical interfaces
- Created test scripts, involved in Unit Testing, UAT, assisted in Data conversion for Integration with multiple target systems, provided Production Support for issue resolution, customization, and upgrades
- Performed impact analysis on latest patches released by the ERP to communicate risks to project leadership, if any.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Oklahoma State University
12.2016
Bachelors of Technology - Biotechnology
Anna University
04.2011
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- IT strategy alignment
- Systems design and architecture
- Influence without authority
- Connecting the dots
- Cross functional team engagement
- Compliance by Design
Timeline
Technical Program Manager (TPM) - Stores Security
Amazon
09.2022 - Current
Senior Technical Consultant - Cyber Risk and Regulatory
PricewaterhouseCoopers
09.2017 - 09.2022
Systems Engineer - Data integration and analytics
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2011 - 04.2015
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Oklahoma State University
Bachelors of Technology - Biotechnology
Anna University