Dinesh Kumar Budagam

Sr CyberSecurity Engineer Sr Consultant (Sr Manager), Visa Inc

Dinesh Kumar Budagam is a seasoned IT professional with over 15+ years of experience across diverse domains within the technology sector. Dinesh Budagam expertise spans Microsoft technologies, Hadoop-based Big Data systems, Data engineering, Cloud security, Privacy, and Cybersecurity. Over the course of his career, Dinesh held key technical and leadership roles at prominent organizations, including IBM, where he was a core contributor, and served as a consultant to major tech leaders such as Microsoft and Meta. Dinesh Budagam began his professional journey as a developer and steadily progressed through roles including Technical Lead and Senior Technical Manager.
Currently, he serve as a Senior Manager and Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at VISA, where he specializes in cybersecurity and function as a Security Architect. In this capacity, Dinesh Budagam lead strategic initiatives aimed at protecting the organization's most critical digital assets. His responsibilities include designing and implementing advanced security frameworks and strategies for Big Data and Cloud environments and focus on ensuring these platforms remain secure, compliant, and resilient to emerging cyber threats.
Dinesh Budagam hold a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2005) and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering (2008), which together provide a strong foundation for his technical and analytical capabilities. Additionally, Dinesh Budagam is certified IBM Solution Architect for Big Data Analytics, Certified Cloud Architect , Certified System Architect and is Senior IEEE member . Dinesh completed Advance CyberSecurity and Generative AI: Technology, Business, and Society Program professional certificate program from Stanford University and has published text book on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Handbook and Journals on Cybersecurity/AI .