Preyah

Privacy practitioner and Business Analyst with 6+ years spanning software engineering, business analysis, and data privacy - including 3.5 years at Autodesk executing GDPR and CCPA compliance programs at enterprise scale. Deep hands-on experience across DSR operations, data breach monitoring, vendor compliance, and privacy-by-design feature validation. Skilled at translating regulatory requirements into actionable product specifications and bridging legal, engineering, and business teams.

Business Analyst at Autodesk Pvt. Ltd. (2021-10 – 2025-03)

• Served as the central point of contact for data privacy compliance across Autodesk's internal systems and customer-facing products - resolving queries from legal, engineering, product, and customer teams on data processing, retention, and compliance obligations.
• Owned DSR operations end-to-end - designed intake-to-resolution workflows for deletion, access, and portability requests under GDPR Articles 17 & 20, improving resolution efficiency by 40%.
• Led data breach monitoring and stakeholder notification - proactively identified data discrepancies, assessed retention compliance, and coordinated cross-functional response; consistently met 72-hour regulatory notification timelines.
• Supported third-party risk management (TPRM) by monitoring vendor privacy compliance - tracking third-party notification timelines and flagging data handling deviations to maintain alignment with contractual privacy obligations.
• Maintained data inventory records and analysed data processing activities to enforce data minimisation principles, reducing unnecessary data retention by 25%.
• Reduced recurring SLA breaches to zero over tenure - deep-dived into system design and workflow architecture to identify root causes of historical breach patterns and drove sustained resolution.

Business Analyst at Blockseed India (2020-12 – 2021-02)

• Translated founder and stakeholder requirements into structured Jira user stories and product specs, bridging business objectives and development execution in a lean startup environment.
• Coordinated daily across dev, marketing, and HR teams - acting as a central communication hub to align priorities, clarify requirements, and unblock delivery.

Customer Experience Consultant at Simply Green Home Services (2019-07 – 2020-03)

• Executed final-stage verification calls for HVAC lease agreements - auditing ownership, credit, and land data to ensure financial and regulatory compliance before lease closure.
• Maintained customer profiles, call records, and lease histories in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce, ensuring data integrity across the full customer lifecycle.
• Verified lease terms against legal standards pre-installation; tracked KPIs and delivered insights that improved reporting accuracy by 30% and sales conversion by 20%

Software Engineer at Digital Software Logiciel (2016-06 – 2017-11)

• Triaged and resolved production database issues by analysing Informatica MDM workflows, applying master data rules to maintain data quality and accuracy.
• Wrote and validated SQL queries for interactive SSRS reporting projects - assisting in query design and testing to ensure accuracy of client-facing reports.

B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering – Anna University (2012-09 – 2016-05)

PG Diploma in Organizational Management – Cambrian College (2018-01 – 2018-12)