Swapnil Kale

A Cloud Security and Identity & Access Management (IAM) professional with 5+ years of experience designing and securing scalable identity architectures, automating identity lifecycle management, and governing human and non-human identities. Expertise in Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Zero Trust, least-privilege access, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and Microsoft Graph API to strengthen identity governance, reduce attack surface, and improve enterprise cloud security through automation and modern identity controls.

Lead at Concentrix (Microsoft) (2025-02 – Present)

• Designed and implemented an identity-first Zero Trust architecture, replacing network-based trust with identity and context-driven access controls, reducing unauthorized access paths by ~70%
• Implemented Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Entra ID roles with MFA, approval, and time-bound JIT activation, removing 90%+ of standing admin access
• Identified and remediated dormant or unused service principals, reducing non-human identity attack surface by ~30-40%
• Automated provisioning of Azure Key Vault, managed identities, and role-based access controls (RBAC) through Terraform, reducing privileged access risks by 60%
• Collaborated with DevOps and infrastructure teams to implement (PKI) certificate-based authentication and secure workload identities, reducing credential-related security risks by 75%

Consultant II at Neudesic - an IBM company (2024-03 – 2024-10)

• Implemented multi-factor authentication(MFA) for 14,000+ users, resulting in a 50% decrease in account breaches
• Delivered Single Sign-On (SSO) for 30+ enterprise applications, lowering password-related support tickets by 40%
• Developed and enforced a least privilege policy for DevOps environments, reducing the number of excessive permissions by 43% and decreasing security incidents related to privilege escalation by 35%
• Automated user lifecycle management (Joiner, Mover, Leaver), reducing onboarding time from 2 days to under 2 hours and eliminating 90% of manual provisioning tasks
• Collaborated with global engineering and security teams to standardize IAM policies and Zero Trust baselines across regions, reducing policy inconsistencies by 65% and accelerating IAM enforcement cycles by 40%

Technical Platform Manager at Labra (2022-11 – 2024-01)

• Conducted periodic identity and access reviews, identifying and remediating over 500 excessive or inactive role assignments, reducing privileged access risks by 35%
• Defined RBAC and enforced least-privilege access across cloud environments, removing 35–45% of excessive permissions
• Engineered end-to-end identity lifecycle automation using Terraform, Microsoft Graph API, GitHub Actions, improving onboarding and offboarding SLAs by 60%
• Integrated IAM controls in CI/CD pipelines, strengthening security and reducing deployment-related access risks by 35%

Digital Platform Lead at Hloov (2021-01 – 2022-10)

• Implemented MFA and risk-based authentication policies in Entra ID, reducing incidents by 50%
• Enforced identity-first Zero Trust across Entra using conditional access, device trust, risk-based MFA, and session controls, reducing unauthorized access vectors by 92%

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – University of Mumbai