Pavan Kumar

Principal Security Architect - Cloud & Devsecops @Colliers

Toronto, ON, CA

At Colliers, I led DevSecOps and secure platform engineering across global engineering teams in APAC and EMEA. I built the enterprise DevSecOps function from scratch, strengthened cloud security and governance and enabled faster, audit-ready releases across mission-critical applications.Key Accomplishments:• Built and scaled a DevSecOps platform across 40+ enterprise applications across APAC and EMEA.• Led a global engineering team delivering secure CI/CD and platform reliability.• Embedded SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM, IaC & container security into delivery pipelines, reducing risk by 70%.• Standardized security-gated CI/CD automation, improving release velocity by 4X with full auditability.• Delivered 99.99% uptime with MTTR under 20 minutes through SRE practices and automated rollback.• Reduced multi-cloud spend by 30–35% through FinOps and policy-driven governance.