Pradeep Ramakrishna is a Principal Technology Architect with 21+ years of experience leading cybersecurity strategy and enterprise security architecture for major public sector programs across the U.S., Canada, and India. He has served as an Information Security Officer and Lead Security Architect, driving security modernization aligned to frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST 800 53, FISMA, ITSG 33, IRS 1075, and ISO 27001. Pradeep has led risk assessments, authorization packages, privacy and compliance initiatives, and cloud security implementations including IAM, Zero Trust, and SIEM modernization. His work spans federal and state environments, where he specializes in designing secure, resilient, and regulatory aligned architectures that safeguard citizen data and strengthen the security posture of government systems.