Richa Sharma

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at Visa

Austin, TX, United States

Details

Education: Product Strategy : Discovering, Developing, Managing and Marketing Products as a Business

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

2020 : 2020

Master's degree

Management Information Systems, General

George Mason University - Volgenau School of Engineering

2015 : 2017

Bachelor's degree

Computer Science

Hyderabad Institute of Technology & Management

2011 : 2015

AP-BIE

Maths,Physics,Chemistry

Narayana Junior College

2009 : 2011

CBSE

School

Howard Public School

1996 : 2009

Experience: Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer for Data Protection and Security Architecture.

Interacting with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce security measures.

2022 : Present

Visa

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Data Protection Engineering & Architecture

Served as operational support for Data Protection technologies dealing with encryption.

2021 : 2022

Visa

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

- Created client and sales engagement materials for Visa’s B2B applications for brand deal renewals.

- Worked with SMEs, Legal and Leadership to enable sales material for the North America Product Book for Visa having +38% YoY increase in downloads for AEs to work on Bank Deals.

- Worked on Brand Partnership renewals with Credit Unions.

2021 : 2022

Visa

Consulting for Deals Team

I have been working with Visa Inc. under Security as Operations. In this role, I have been involved in maintaining the service availability and directing various teams within Visa as well as M&As protect their data and manage the products involved in it.

This role demands co-ordinating with teams globally on a daily basis, documenting and providing optimal solutions in maintaining the services responsible for securing Visa's data.

I have extensive experience working as an SME for Vormetric, IBM KMIP with Vormetric, Venafi, Safenet, Vault by Hashicorp.

I have led several projects as well as team wellbeing initiatives, experienced in peer-level trainings to global teams effectively, documented various process flows, driven as well as directed projects to closures with production standards.

2017 : 2021

Visa

Cybersecurity Engineer | Senior Software Engineer

Teaching Assistant for Graduate level subjects-

1) Java Datastructures (INFS 519)

2) Communication Networks (INFS 612)

3) Systems Analysis and Design (INFS 622)

2016 : 2017

George Mason University

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Company: Visa

Years of Experience: 8

Spoken Language: English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Telugu

Skills Agile Methodologies, Analytical Skills, Application Security Architecture, Bootstrap, Business Requirements, Business Strategy, C, C++ Language, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Cloud Security, Critical Thinking, Cryptography, HTML, Information Security, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, Linux, Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, MySQL, Powershell, Product Management, Product Strategy, Python, Requirements Analysis, Research, Security, Social Media, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Product Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategy, System Administration, User Experience (UX), User Interaction, User Research, Monitoring and, Project Evaluation, Project Management, International, Survey Design, Survey Research, Capacity Development

About - Certified in Product Strategy from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (2020).

- Working for Visa Inc. since 2017 as Cyber Security Engineer.

Good knowledge on Encryption technologies with vendors - Thales Encryption Solutions, Venafi, Opswat MetaDefender.

I enjoy interacting with people and learning new technologies. Working in a global company has made me adaptable to working in different time-zones, indulging in peer-level trainings.

My experience in Operations industry has also crafted the way I think and piqued my interest in problem solving and design strategy.

Some of my other strengths include out-going personality, social media, learn about people, perspective, culture & diversity, and would eventually look into transitioning to a role which would exploit my most obvious interests with a blend of technology.