Manasa Kandadi is an accomplished Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Lead Platform Engineer with extensive experience designing, implementing, and modernizing enterprise-wide regulatory technology and risk management platforms for leading financial and energy organizations. She specializes in designing and modernizing Archer-based GRC Systems helping organizations to centralize compliance and risk processes on an integrated platform. Over the course of her career, she focused on developing scalable, vendor-independent Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions that enable organizations to strengthen regulatory compliance, improve operational efficiency, and enhance enterprise-wide risk visibility.
Currently serving as Lead Platform Engineer for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Systems at Fifth Third Bank, Manasa leads the implementation and customization of enterprise-scale Archer GRC use cases supporting more than 25,000 users across the organization. She has contributed to significant operational improvements by delivering approximately $1.5 million to $2 million in cost optimization while enhancing enterprise risk visibility through centralized dashboards and enterprise reporting capabilities. Her work enables organizations to standardize risk management processes and improve governance across complex business environments.
Previously, Manasa served as Lead Technical Engineer for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Systems at American Electric Power, where she led the expansion of Archer infrastructure through the deployment of additional web and application servers. Her initiatives improved platform scalability for more than 15,000 enterprise users and increased overall infrastructure scalability by more than 300 percent through strategic optimization efforts. Across her professional experience, she has architected enterprise GRC systems supporting over 25,000 users, contributed to multi-million-dollar operational savings initiatives, and helped reduce manual compliance efforts by up to 60 percent through automation and process standardization.
Manasa holds a Master of Science in Information Systems from Marist College, New York, where she graduated with a GPA of 3.81, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH), India, with a GPA of 3.9. Her combination of technical expertise, enterprise platform engineering experience, and commitment to governance and compliance has enabled her to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions that support organizational resilience and regulatory excellence.