Overview
Rakesh Randeria is a Sydney-based technology executive with more than 20 years of experience spanning hands-on engineering, infrastructure, IT management, cybersecurity, transformation, and executive leadership. His work connects business strategy with secure delivery, operational resilience, and practical technology change.
His approach combines commercial and strategic context with enough technical depth to understand how services are delivered and operated. The focus remains on business outcomes, people, risk, and measurable improvement.
Areas of Focus
- Technology strategy, operating models, investment, architecture, and executive decision-making
- Cybersecurity strategy, governance, ISO 27001, Essential Eight, resilience, and risk management
- Responsible AI adoption, use-case assessment, data governance, platform risk, and proportionate controls
- IT operations, service management, infrastructure, identity, resilience, and practical automation
Leadership Approach
Work begins with the business need, user context, constraints, and current state. Direction is then shaped through target-state principles and practical strategy, while priorities are governed around value, risk, capacity, ownership, and decision rights.
Delivery covers programs, organisational change, controls, vendors, and transparent escalation. Ongoing operations emphasize supportability, resilience, automation, continuous improvement, and measurement through adoption, risk reduction, service performance, and learning.
Selected Work
Published resources include technology leadership playbooks, a data governance toolkit, and case studies covering enterprise application recovery and governed AI adoption. Additional work addresses AI use-case assessment, identity lifecycle management, user offboarding, access review, and automation across Microsoft-oriented environments.