Akankshya Padhi
Senior Manager at PwC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkankshya Padhi is a Senior Manager in Cyber Security at PwC with nine years of hands-on experience spanning cloud architecture, network security, and identity/access management across large enterprises. She has led numerous NIST CSF assessments and risk mitigation programs, translating technical controls into board-level risk posture improvements for clients. Her background includes security architecture roles at AT&T and DIRECTV where she tackled PKI, encryption protocols, high-availability design, and cloud DDoS mitigation—skills she now applies to strategic cyber program strengthening. Based in San Francisco, she pairs a USC master’s in Cyber Security with a curious, AI-driven mindset and active full-stack development interests, bringing both technical depth and product-thinking to security transformations. A pragmatic collaborator, she bridges engineering, privacy, and legal stakeholders to deliver compliant, resilient cloud platforms.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cyber Security, Master's degree Cyber Security at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (7)
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
javascript4
react4
issue-tracking3
anaconda1
coco1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Akankshya-ap/English_Odia-Translation
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
Akankshya-ap/577-citizenshive
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
577-citizenshive
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 PRs, 60 pushes in 21 days
javascriptreact
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