Sri Raksha Rao

• Directing the smooth operation and maintenance of 10 Incident Management Safeguards, and ad-hoc supporting 8 Third Party Oversight Management Safeguards, which directly protect and enforce the integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of all Developer Operation APIs
• Ensuring that all Incident Management safeguard owners are compliant with privacy mandated certifications and protocols, and are well-supported for assessor related inquiries - reduced fiscal penalties by more than 80% in the Incident Management domain within one year
• Investigating, triaging, and assisting in the remediation of 50+ high severity incidents (SEVs) that affect DevOps and Meta
• Scoping and triaging over 80 Incident Management tasks that deal with legal requests, audit management, investigations and enforcement safeguard processes, and other operational duties
• Partnering with senior stakeholders within Privacy, Systems, Data, and other cross-functional pillars to identify operational and technical challenges and ensuring proactive conflict resolution
• Governing and building out a centralized documentation [Center of Excellence (CoE)] initiative with 7 direct reports to centralize, standardize, automate, and continuously monitor and update technical and process documentation across all of Developer Operations
• Creating in-depth user process documentation, strategy matrices, RACIs, workplans, retrospectives, and other guides for the Global Developer Operations team and regulatory bodies
• Fostering community and improving morale by instantiating DevOps wide initiatives such as the conception of Work Life Balance month (e.g., seminar/speaker series, personalized curated team content, mindfulness sessions, etc.)

• Spearheaded several key areas of IT integration management for 25+ large-scale, international technical acquisitions
• Served as the primary point of contact for all 25+ acquisitions, including two of Accenture's largest acquisitions with more than 6500 employees in each
• Reduced global V&A ISIT timelines from 12 months to 6 months, saving ~$2b annually in expenses
• Developed requirements to automate key activities for the V&A ISIT Enablement process, reducing time-to-completion projections by ~30%
• Partnered daily with senior stakeholders across cyber, enablement, IS-IT, legal, HR, etc.
• Mapped, analyzed, and extracted data from large-scale data sets

Ventures & Acquisitions Security Consulting Practitioner

• Drove several key areas of IS-IT integration work for Accenture's acquisition of Symantec's Managed Cyber Security Services division through the peak of Covid, across 13 countries and 50+ global SOCs
• Created, implemented, and executed a dynamic Phased Project Plan for pre, during, and post-merger activities
• Analyzed and standardized large-scale data sets to strategize and develop an application inventory and international software distribution program
• Developed technical user process guides for both technical and non-technical audiences (e.g., setting up AWS Workspaces)

Team Lead, Web Application Penetration Tester

• Supervised and mentored teams of 3-4 junior penetration testers at a time through various iterations of Web Application and API penetration tests for a large telecommunications client
• Amplified the client's security posture by conducting over 70+ penetration tests to date related to web applications and APIs; reported more than 40 critical, high, and medium findings to the client from 2019-2020
• Reviewed threat and vulnerability reports, facilitated critical vulnerability remediation calls, and organized knowledge transfer sessions
• Pioneered an interactive Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Workshop and recruitment event at Carnegie Mellon University, resulting in additional hires and increased headcount for Accenture Security
• Created and delivered more than 80 high-quality technical reports detailing vulnerability assessments, findings, and remediation strategies for this billion-dollar client

Web Application Penetration Tester

• Learned how to conduct penetration tests for APIs and Web Applications on-the-job, acquired GWAPT certification 10 months later, and amplified the security posture for a billion-dollar client.

Cyber Risk Strategist

• Assessed the security posture for more than 78 applications at a million-dollar telecommunications client by analyzing vulnerable domains within an application and proposing respective remediation strategies. Responsible for enforcing and managing budgets, status plans, finances, etc. for all 5 project teams at this client.