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Ankit Gupta

Phoenix,Arizona

Summary

As a seasoned Privacy Engineering Lead, I bring extensive expertise in designing and implementing robust privacy frameworks to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. My role involves conducting thorough privacy impact assessments, leading incident response teams for data breaches, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate privacy-by-design principles into products and services. I am adept at educating staff on data protection practices, overseeing third-party compliance, and staying current with evolving privacy laws. My technical acumen includes the secure handling of sensitive data through encryption and anonymization techniques, coupled with excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Privacy Engineering Lead

General Motors Financial
06.2024 - Current
  • Experienced in supporting product launches and well-versed in the product launch lifecycle.
  • Consistently work with privacy regulatory frameworks like GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, LGPD etc.
  • Reviewed technical drawings developed by CAD technicians and drafters to implement privacy best practices across the organization.
  • Skilled in overseeing website and mobile app marketing with a focus on cookie compliance, utilizing Observepoint and Adobe Tag Manager.
  • Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
  • Conduct privacy impact assessments and risk analyses to identify and mitigate potential privacy risks.
  • Developed and implemented procedures to verify compliance with engineering standards.
  • Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
  • Developed comprehensive engineering documents for all projects.

Principal Privacy Engineer

Silicon Valley Bank
04.2020 - 06.2024


Senior Privacy Engineer April 2020-March 2022


  • Tech lead for privacy engineering efforts across product launches working with multiple business units, scaling privacy controls, implementing privacy policies and data discovery using privacy tools (BigID, OneTrust, Custom tools build)
  • Ensured Personal Data (PII) within the bank is protected by managing data discovery scans of over 500+ databases/applications that identify PII, classify data elements, feed personal data elements to the data map and the enterprise data catalog
  • Implemented data automation processes, third party integrations using python RESTful APIs across the privacy organization
  • Responsible for creating and managing the data discovery vision, strategy, roadmap, and quarterly deliverables
  • Responsible for providing evidence and documentation for control testing and audit of Enterprise Privacy requirements
  • Implemented end to end SaaS based cloud solutions
  • Data Loss Prevention labelling using Microsoft MIP suite
  • Automating Data Discovery, data classification, data retention, remediation using BigID
  • Worked with engineering team to drive privacy by design ideology
  • Created PIA, PTA and DLP assessments using One Trust
  • Create, monitor data points into the IT risk management activities, including dashboards, metrics, and reporting
  • Requirement gathering for CCPA, GDPR compliance implementation
  • Prepared training programs for the cross-functional team

Sr. Privacy Engineer

Silicon Valley Bank
04.2020 - 02.2021

Sr. Privacy Engineer

Kohls
12.2019 - 04.2020
  • Implemented IAB compliant cookies and advertising strategy
  • Using ServiceNow as an integration tool with One Trust to create the DSAR requests
  • Integrating Okta for verifying and authenticating Agent portal

Senior Consultant

Capgemini
04.2018 - 12.2019
  • Created Data Inventory at enterprise level
  • Data Masking and anonymization at enterprise level
  • Worked on GDPR privacy law implementation
  • Requirement gathering for various data privacy exercises in questionnaires, interviews etc
  • Used One Trust as a data mapping solution and workflow creation
  • Developed queries using DB2, SQL Server for the data discovery exercise
  • Created ETL process using Informatica
  • Designed data warehousing reports using OBIEE, Tableau etc

Project Analyst

Intellect Design Arena
03.2016 - 12.2016

Product Developer

CSC (now DXC)
02.2012 - 04.2015

Education

Master of Science - Business Analytics

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
12-2017

Skills

  • Privacy by Design
  • Data Discovery
  • Compliance
  • Data Security
  • Software development

Certification

IAPP CIPT

Timeline

Privacy Engineering Lead

General Motors Financial
06.2024 - Current

Principal Privacy Engineer

Silicon Valley Bank
04.2020 - 06.2024

Sr. Privacy Engineer

Silicon Valley Bank
04.2020 - 02.2021

Sr. Privacy Engineer

Kohls
12.2019 - 04.2020

Senior Consultant

Capgemini
04.2018 - 12.2019

Project Analyst

Intellect Design Arena
03.2016 - 12.2016

Product Developer

CSC (now DXC)
02.2012 - 04.2015

IAPP CIPT

Master of Science - Business Analytics

University of South Florida
Ankit Gupta