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Experience

  1. Director (Cyber Security in Financial Sector)

    Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India · December 2021 – Present (3 years 10 months)
    • Governance of cyber security in financial sector with multiple stakeholder coordination
    • Managing projects with government, financial sector regulators, national and global agencies
    • Strengthening Cyber Security Framework in financial sector in consultation with regulators
    • Leading Digital Payment Service Provider related work and Data Residency issues
  2. Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

    Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance · June 2023 – Present (2 years 4 months)
    • Strengthening cyber security measures in DEA through ISMS programme execution
    • Implementation of Cyber Crisis Management Plan (CCMP)
    • Leading cybersecurity strategy and operations for the department
  3. Manager - IT & Security (Various Managerial Roles)

    State Bank of India · June 2006 – Present (19 years 4 months)
    • Information Security and compliance for Core Banking Operations
    • GDPR & IFCOFR implementation for CBS and allied applications
    • Business resiliency with CBS BCP/DR plans, DR Drills and Backup testing
    • IT lead for Associate Banks Mega-merger IT/IS incident resolution
    • ITIL best practices implementation through service desk and related tools
    • Application owner and Project manager for upgrade projects (OS, DB, Web, security)
    • Implemented ITIL modules in SBI foreign offices for finacle and trade finance
    • Solutions architecture for continued service improvement
  4. Software Engineer & Lecturer (CSE)

    J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA · July 2003 – June 2006 (3 years)
    • Taught Computer Engineering subjects: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, IT
    • Software development, testing and implementation of applications
    • Academic contribution in Computer Science education