Bio:
Mounika Poladi is an Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Platform Architect with experience designing and modernizing large-scale regulatory technology platforms, enterprise risk systems, and compliance infrastructure. She specializes in enterprise GRC architecture, regulatory data architecture, platform modernization, risk data integration, and scalable compliance systems that support evolving regulatory requirements.
Currently serving as a Lead Platform Engineer at Fifth Third Bank, Mounika has led enterprise platform migration and modernization initiatives that maintained 100% data integrity, improved platform scalability by 300%, and enabled systems supporting 25,000+ users. Her work includes consolidating fragmented compliance platforms into a unified enterprise architecture with approximately 80% enterprise adoption, designing scalable infrastructure, and developing vendor-independent engineering frameworks that significantly reduced upgrade costs and external vendor dependency. She has also contributed to the development of a unified regulatory data model to improve compliance accuracy and traceability across enterprise systems.
Before Fifth Third Bank, Mounika worked as a Software Engineer at American Electric Power, where she managed multi-tier GRC infrastructure, executed platform upgrades, and improved system stability while reducing reliance on external vendors. Her professional accomplishments include multi-million-dollar cost savings, a 90% reduction in system complexity, and the delivery of enterprise-scale compliance platforms.
Mounika holds a Master of Science in Information Systems from Marist College and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from JNTUH. She is also the author of publications focused on GRC Platform Consolidation Architecture, Vendor-Agnostic Engineering Framework, Regulatory Data Architecture, and Real-Time Compliance Systems, reflecting her continued contributions to enterprise governance and compliance technology.