Priya is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with 14 years of experience in software engineering and cloud architecture. She actively consults for Fintech and Healthtech firms on GDPR compliance and ISO 27001 certification. Her role focuses on modernizing legacy tech stacks and implementing Zero-Trust security frameworks.
Priya Patel is a highly respected technologist with a background in Computer Science from Imperial College London. She spent the first decade of her career engineering high-availability systems for global banking institutions, giving her a rigorous grounding in security and uptime. Now operating as a fractional CTO, Priya helps UK SMEs transition from on-premise servers to cloud-native environments using AWS and Azure, ensuring they avoid common pitfalls like vendor lock-in and spiraling costs. She is an expert in data governance, specifically navigating the complexities of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Priya writes to translate complex technical challenges into business language, explaining why technical debt kills innovation and how to manage API ecosystems effectively. Her guidance is essential for companies looking to stress-test their infrastructure before major events like Black Friday, and she advocates heavily for 'security by design' rather than treating it as an afterthought. She bridges the gap between developers and the C-suite.