Venkat C Dandamudi

Led end-to-end Wiz CNAPP implementation across 120 AWS accounts and Azure, consolidated multiple security tools, built custom compliance frameworks, deployed Wiz Runtime Sensor and Kubernetes scanning, and enforced shift-left via build-time blocking. Owned integrations across Splunk, ServiceNow, Tenable, CyCognito, Akamai, and Checkmarx One, including custom dashboards and audit evidence workflows. Drove IAM/CIEM analysis and SailPoint IdentityNow onboarding (59 sources) for access recertification; partnered with IAM for CIEM processes. Built automation using Python/PowerShell/Bash and IaC modules (Terraform/CloudFormation) and standardized infrastructure patterns across AWS and GCP.

Planned and prototyped transformation to accelerate releases by moving from monolith toward microservices with fully automated, on-demand environments. Built a generic Jenkins pipeline routing webhooks to reusable stages for quality and security scans (SonarQube, Fortify, Aqua), plus container build/deploy. Set up GKE with Anthos Service Mesh and deployed microservices to OpenShift; established supporting tooling including Vault, Artifactory, Istio, Prometheus, and Grafana. Served as technical lead for DevSecOps adoption by a team of 15 engineers.

Built Terraform reference architecture for an AWS GovCloud program (Concourse, CircleCI, GitLab, Artifactory, ECS/ECR, ELK) to reduce environment provisioning from weeks to hours. Integrated Fortify, SonarQube, Twistlock, and Nessus into pipelines to remove manual security reviews and reduce operational overhead by 40%. Led optimization efforts that reduced operating cost by 45% and managed a team of 8 engineers.