Karthikeyan Manoharan

About Karthikeyan Manoharan

With over 16 years of experience, I currently serve as Cyber Security Architect, Staff at Qualcomm. My focus is on leading high-performance teams to execute security architecture, cloud security, and firewall services. I drive the development and delivery of comprehensive service roadmaps and control strategies aligned with organizational goals. My expertise includes designing lifecycle processes for architecture reviews, managing security architecture assessments, and establishing governance structures like security architecture boards. Committed to enabling secure and scalable solutions, I strive to mitigate risks and enhance business operations through continuous process improvements and strategic alignment.

Experience

1. Security Engineering Manager - Cyber Security Architect

   Qualcomm

   Nov 2020 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Regional Operational Owner for Security Architecture Service, Capability Owner for Firewall Security Service• Lead and manage high-performance teams responsible for executing security architecture, cloud security and firewall services. Achieved continuous improvements across processes through stabilize-mature-elevate cycles.• Responsible for building and delivering service and control roadmap for the security services, including the services strategy, operations and continuous improvement aligned to business goals and priorities.• Develop architecture review lifecycles, and manage team responsible for performing security architectures assessments. • Establish the security architecture board, responsible for developing reusable security architecture and design patterns, reducing security assessment lead time from over 30 days to less than 14 days.• Evangelize adaption of threat modelling and secure development among development teams.• Establish and operationalize cloud security posture management - reduced misconfigurations by more than 45%.• Matured firewall security capability through integrations, with Enterprise risk/change management, incident response, asset management processes resulting in improved security posture and incident response.• Lead and implemented integration of GenAI usage within the security architecture assessments to reduce lead time and improve accuracy of assessments. Spearheaded automation efforts for firewall review process and cloud audits resulting in significant annual savings of over man-hours over a 3-year period) combined.• Maintain harmonious relationship with Business stakeholders, product owners, cross-functional engineering teams and leadership team for driving the capability maturity.• Responsible for hiring, training, and developing staff to ensure the team has the skills to maintain operations. Also, mentoring to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.

Education

• Mahatma Montessori Matriculation Higher Secondary School

  Higher Secondary, Computer Science

  2001 — 2003

• Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

  B.Tech, Mechanical

  2003 — 2007