Sasanka Nukala

About Sasanka Nukala

Senior Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies, with a track record of architecting and delivering best-in-class and scalable solutions that increase revenue, reduce risk, and lower operating expenses.• Proven ability to establish and operationalize strategic vision for organizations to deliver on key business and platform optimization goals (Expense and performance)• Significant experience with recruiting and leading strong motivated large teams, global outsourcing, IT vendor management, and optimizing technology expenditure.• Key areas of technical expertise include:o Identity and Access Managemento Technology Architecture & Integrationo Business Process Management Solutionso Global Production Operations, Engineering & Dev Opso Mergers and acquisitions

Experience

1. Executive Director

   Morgan Stanley

   Jul 2006 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Responsible for Wealth Management (WM) Identity & Access Management (IAM) services in the creation of new, reengineered processes and systems. The portfolio contains 8 product areas, 100+ global teams & a $15M+/year budget while its services support ~2500+ internal applications, 50k+ employees /system ids, 16M direct entitlements with 25M/day authorization calls. • Executing a 3 years IAM integration program for E*TRADE & Solium Shareworks acquisitions.• Adopted critical apps into WM Central masking service which restricts visibility of client PII information to users with broad data access unless it\'s pertinent to their job function. • Deployed “Use It or Lose It” program by instrumenting entitlements usage for WM 650+ applications & implemented ‘auto-revocation’ feature for ‘Out of role’ distributed applications, mainframe & BI entitlements. • Executed a Front to Back transformation program using design-thinking, agile/DevOps methodologies to reimage the access request platform by intuitive user interface & consistent information architecture.• Deployed WM Business entitlements authorization services onto Azure cloud with help or WM IT Architecture and common services teams including intraday & nightly batch user/app entitlements changes via Kafka. • Deployed Pega Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to manage 5 business processes which includes tollgate, deployments, administration of manual provisioning, application & role onboarding of entitlements.• Improved response times and accuracy of reporting by architecting entitlements data warehouse that provides historical, predictive analytics including ~5 AI/ML models for demonstrating the “cause & effect” of user entitlements along with data lineage & risk ranking.

Education

• Osmania University

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1994 — 1998

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  MS, Computer Science

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Software Development
• Entitlements
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Unix
• Requirements Gathering
• Identity Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Access Control Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Software Project Management
• Integration
• Data Warehousing
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Soa
• Sql
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)