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Awards
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Preethi Polepalli Yeshwanth

Preethi Polepalli Yeshwanth

Bangalore

Summary

19 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill sets in multiple roles and industry verticals, and leading teams across multiple domains. Possesses diverse experience of working with multiple technologies, both in open source and enterprise platforms, in cloud and on-premise solutions. Currently leading a million-dollar business, Cyber automation as a service is building automation capabilities across several clusters such as Healthcare, Financial services, Retail, and Consumer, etc. Provides direction, leadership, and motivation to ensure that teams perform to the best of their abilities and deliver consistently. Completed Masters in Cybersecurity at Georgia Tech with the highest GPA of 4 to upskill in the security space.

Strategic Director known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Specialise in operational strategy, team leadership, and financial oversight. Excel in communication, problem-solving, and adaptability, ensuring effective team collaboration and project success.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director

PwC
Bengaluru
11.2021 - Current
  • Set up and driving a Cyber automation competency with a team size of 30 to deliver various automation capabilities across domains such as Cloud, IoT, security testing, IDAM, and managed services.
  • Leading multiple solutions in the Emerging technologies space at PwC, focusing on addressing cyber threats both for cloud and on-prem requirements.
  • Integrating multiple solutions, such as Confidential computing, Quantum solutions, and Secure Kubernetes, to build intellectual property solutions for various clients in both domestic and captive domains. Driving intellectual Property on DevSecOps, a secure and customizable solution for DevSecOps hosted on Kubernetes at PwC.
  • Developed and executed marketing strategies to increase automation adoption across the industry in various clusters, such as Healthcare, Financial services, etc.
  • Led cross-functional teams to drive projects on automation with global stakeholders, such as Canada, Japan, UK, etc.
  • Promoted a culture of innovation and encouraged staff to contribute ideas in enabling technology in Cyber, leveraging emerging technologies such as GenAI, Blockchain, and Quantum computing.

Technical Lead and Developer

IBM- India
03.2011 - 10.2021

Technical Leader for a large team driving hypervisor virtualization management with complete ownership from India development on System Z, X86 server, and Power servers implemented. Designed and implemented several RAS features, including log rotation, appropriate debug data dumps on X86 and power servers, adaptive resource monitoring tools, Surveillance Daemon enhancements, etc. Drove several other projects on open source development on OpenStack integration, z System's Dynamic Partition Manager (open source development), and Dynamic Partition Management zBX Hypervisor Management - System Z, Power, AIX.

Cybersecurity Architect

IBM US
Georgia
09.2017 - 01.2021

As a ZaaS (zSystem as a Service) Security Architect, my mission is to drive IBM LinuxOne into the cloud via a public/private cloud strategy and exploit IBM's unique, highly secure, and performant platform differentiation across industries and enterprises to help our clients succeed.

Senior Developer

NokiaSiemens Networks
11.2005 - 03.2011

Developed topology for network elements generic enough to support various types like Hit and Juniper in EMS from scratch, with complete ownership of the architecture. User interface development using JSF web technologies, fully extensible with the best performance. Development of EJB module for performing complex business logic for managing the network elements with fault correlation techniques and physical link creation concepts.

Education

Masters - Cyber Security

Georgia Tech Institute of Technology, US

Skills

  • Cybersecurity
  • Enterprise Security Architecture
  • Cloud computing

Certification

  • Certified Ethical Hacker
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Java certification

Awards

  • Technical Achievement award at IBM, 2016
  • Second prize in Hackathon building Bluemix Data Analytics based Dating App
  • Spark based hackathon @IBM

Patents

  • Locked down clusters
  • Kubernetes secure cloud init enhancements using sidecar container

Publications & Forums

  • Presented paper on Blockchain at GHCI
  • Chaired Systems track in GHCI conference
  • Published md5 checksum based image verification tool
  • Contributed for Openstack opensource development and participated in relevant forums

Timeline

Director

PwC
11.2021 - Current

Cybersecurity Architect

IBM US
09.2017 - 01.2021

Technical Lead and Developer

IBM- India
03.2011 - 10.2021

Senior Developer

NokiaSiemens Networks
11.2005 - 03.2011

Masters - Cyber Security

Georgia Tech Institute of Technology, US
Preethi Polepalli Yeshwanth