Parveen Kumar Khera

About Parveen Kumar Khera

At HDFC Bank, our team\'s mission revolves around digitizing India\'s largest private bank. We\'ve been instrumental in pioneering a cultural shift by embracing a DevSecOps culture, fostering agility in development, and ensuring compliance alongside IT security automation. Implementation of Zero Trust Architecture and embedding of Security from the beginning have helped us to save thousands of productive developer hours. Our efforts have streamlined governance and framework, breaking down siloes to enhance the developer productive.Previously, at Games24x7, our focus was on transforming a manually driven environment into an automated powerhouse. Leading a team of 21 skilled engineers, we successfully transitioned to an automated environment that underscores my proficiency in DevOps, SRE, and MLOps. This experience exemplifies my commitment to innovation, automation, and team-building within high-stakes, regulated financial services sectors.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President

   HDFC Bank

   Jun 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Key Contributions and Learnings in current role- Spearheaded the Innovation, development and maturation of HDFC Bank\'s (Cloud Security Strategy, DevSecOps and Developer Relationships), modernization of existing products and ensuring the creation of a best-in-class cloud platform for future products- Serve as a subject matter expert, producing vision, frameworks and driving strategic initiatives to enhance product and cloud security practices across engineering teams and leadership teams- Mentor and coach Security Architects, DevOps Architects, and Software Architects to cultivate cloud security skills and promote a shift-left culture in DevSecOps- Integrate advanced security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, Container Scanning) into scripted CI/CD pipelines(Pipeline as Code) to ensure secure software development practices. Scalable implementation and integration of Cx-One(Checmarx), RedHat Quay, SonarQube, Jfrog etc- Oversee the security of multiple on-premises and AWS cloud products deployed globally, ensuring compliance with SOC2 standards- Collaborate daily with C-level leadership, several engineering teams and product teams to design and develop secure products, actively preventing the accumulation of security debt- Assess the current cloud security posture, identify gaps in alignment with Zero Trust principles, and develop a strategic roadmap in partnership with key stakeholders- Lead recruitment efforts to build a diverse team of security architects, fostering an inclusive environment that encourages learning and growth- Coordinate cross-functional activities to support incident response and ensure effective communication during security events.

Education

• Kurukshetra University

  Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting and Computer Science

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology

  2006 — 2009

• Maharshi Dayanand University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Senior Management Program

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Senior Management Program, Business, Economics, Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Kurukshetra University

  Post Graduate Diploma In Computer Applications, Information Technology

  2002 — 2003

Skills

• Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Apache
• Perl
• Mysql
• Nagios
• Cloud Computing
• Unix
• Subversion
• Linux System Administration
• Scripting
• Web Services
• Tcp/Ip
• Cacti
• IT Infrastructure Management
• Computer Security
• High Availability
• Lamp
• Red Hat Linux
• Servers
• Solaris
• Networking
• Domain Name System (Dns)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (Dhcp)
• System Administration
• Agile Methodologies
• Databases
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Devops
• Puppet
• High Availability Clustering
• Redis
• Memcached
• Python