Rajesh Rajamohanan Nair

About Rajesh Rajamohanan Nair

As a Staff Technical Program Manager at LinkedIn, I lead a strategic initiative to…

Experience

1. Staff Technical Program Manager

   Linkedin

   Jul 2021 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Selected Responsibilities • Lead the strategy, planning, and execution of enterprise-scale security and identity programs with $20M+ budgets, strengthening the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of global platforms and critical infrastructure.• Serve as the single-threaded owner for multi-year workforce identity modernization initiatives, defining roadmaps, milestones, dependency models, and execution cadences while proactively managing risk and ensuring predictable delivery across globally distributed teams.• Drive operational excellence for large engineering portfolios, including quarterly planning, intake prioritization, resource alignment, and delivery reviews to modernize and scale core infrastructure.• Partner closely with senior engineering, product, and security leaders to align stakeholders, clarify ownership, and embed security and trust into platform and product development across the organization.Selected Impacts• Led the enterprise-wide rollout of passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication, achieving 100% workforce adoption, reducing average sign-in time from 45 seconds to under 5 seconds, and materially improving security posture and user experience.• Drove adoption of enterprise identity verification solutions (Nametag, Microsoft Identity Pass), strengthening user assurance for sensitive authentication and recovery flows across the organization.• Transformed the account recovery and unlock experience by implementing identity verification–based unlocks. • Led a multi-vendor Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA/SSE) evaluation using a structured, defensible decision framework spanning cost, platform reuse, security maturity, and user experience.• Owned multi-year enterprise security portfolio planning and capacity modeling, establishing formal portfolio reviews and annual planning processes to align Zero Trust delivery with stakeholder OKRs, funding, and engineering capacity.