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About me

I'm Chandu Atluri, a senior cloud security architect based in NY Metropolitan Area. Over 8+ years in IT — the last 5 focused specifically on enterprise cloud security — I've built my career around one question: how do you let teams move fast on GCP and Azure without leaving the front door open?

That's meant architecting Zero Trust environments, modernizing IAM platforms, and standing up defense-in-depth controls for multi-tenant cloud workloads. I've led security architecture reviews across 150+ cloud workloads, designed enterprise identity federation for Fortune 500 SSO rollouts, and automated cloud governance with Infrastructure-as-Code so security scales with engineering instead of trailing behind it.

I hold a CISSP and a Master's in Cybersecurity from NYU, and I spend a fair amount of time these days on the security side of AI adoption — training teams on AI-related risk and helping them adopt it safely.

Experience

  1. Senior Cloud Security Architect

    Sep 2024 – Present

    CrossCountry Consulting · New York, NY

  2. Avanade (Accenture & Microsoft Joint Venture) logo

    Cloud Security Engineer

    Jun 2021 – Aug 2024

    Avanade (Accenture & Microsoft Joint Venture) · New York, NY

  3. Envestnet logo

    Business Systems Analyst

    Jul 2019 – Jun 2021

    Envestnet · Secaucus, NJ

  4. Application Developer

    Jun 2018 – Jul 2019

    Compass Group · Charlotte, NC

Certifications

Active

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)Associate Cloud EngineerGenerative AI LeaderDigital LeaderAzure Fundamentals (AZ-900)Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Previously held

Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)Information Protection Administrator Associate (SC-400)Terraform AssociateSecurity+Certified Cloud Practitioner