Hari K Karnati

Direct product strategy, roadmap execution, and fraud mitigation capabilities securing digital access across a massive public-sector infrastructure.

• Accelerated Digital Growth: Spearheaded the launch of a next-generation Identity and Fraud Engine, yielding a 35% surge in user engagement and contributing to a 22% expansion in overall digital adoption.
• Slashed Operating Costs by 40%: Architected the integration of advanced external identity intelligence and verification data streams, drastically improving proofing accuracy while lowering overhead.
• Optimized Delivery Velocity: Mobilized a 25-member cross-functional product, engineering, security, and operations squad; curtailed release cycles by 50% and boosted collective productivity by 30% via robust Agile delivery frameworks.
• Modernized CI/CD Pipelines: Partnered with technical architecture teams to anchor automated releases, production telemetry, and continuous infrastructure optimizations, securing superior platform uptime.
• Federal Compliance Ownership: Maintained flawless compliance posture, aligning all product development lifecycles with strict NIST SP 800-63 and FIDO2/WebAuthn specifications.

Formulated strategic roadmaps for identity lifecycle management, multi-factor authentication modernization, and real-time fraud-risk scoring.

• Elevated Co-Creation Success by 60%: Forged high-value strategic alliances with tier-one identity providers and federal technology vendors to fast-track modern integration pipelines.
• Data-Driven Backlog Management: Championed the utilization of deep analytics, user behavioral telemetry, and NLP-driven customer feedback to refine user journeys and prioritize feature development.
• Unified Stakeholder Matrix: Streamlined communications across geographically distributed, siloed teams, facilitating rapid executive decision-making and clear accountability boundaries.

Orchestrated the engineering and broad adoption of secure enterprise identity service integrations.

• Captured $2M in Annual Value: Architected and executed a comprehensive enterprise API strategy, driving a 200% growth in secure, identity-enabled integrations through enhanced developer adoption.
• Captured 15% Market Share: Conducted rigorous market research and continuous user discovery to identify untapped IAM requirements, successfully deploying targeted features within a tight 6-month window.
• Boosted UX Conversions by 25%: Deployed data-driven automated testing frameworks to optimize identity conversion rates while fully preserving stringent privacy and compliance thresholds.
• Privacy-by-Design Advocate: Maintained a critical equilibrium between user friction and federal regulations by embedding privacy-conscious features into core legacy modernization workflows.

Delivered foundational integration and identity lifecycle engineering during enterprise modernization phases.

• Mitigated Security Risk: Coupled core identity products with legacy enterprise authorization platforms, elevating compliance traceability by 95% and decreasing fraud exposure by 60%.
• Pioneered Agile Frameworks: Orchestrated the Agile transformation for a 15-member systems engineering team, raising immediate sprint execution velocity by 35%.