Akshaya Jayaram is a highly accomplished Principal M&A Security Engineer at Salesforce with over seven years of experience securing large-scale, high-impact technology acquisitions. Rapidly promoted through multiple roles, Akshaya has consistently demonstrated exceptional technical depth, strategic leadership, and innovation across cloud, infrastructure, and acquisition security.
In Her current role, Akshaya leads end-to-end security diligence and integration for acquisitions ranging from early-stage companies to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. He played a pivotal role in the $8B Informatica acquisition, defining the security roadmap, mitigating high-risk findings, and ensuring full compliance across complex workstreams while safeguarding an estimated $20M in critical assets and intellectual property. He has successfully owned the complete M&A security pipeline, achieving 100% compliance with Salesforce security baselines across multiple acquisitions.
Akshaya is widely recognized for pioneering advanced security automation and agentic AI solutions. Her innovations include building a Graph RAG system that reduced diligence risk identification time by 40% and developing a secret-prioritization tool that significantly accelerated remediation in newly acquired environments. Earlier in her career, he led the deployment of CSPM tooling across 70% of company assets, reducing remediation timelines and saving over $1.2M in deployment costs.
He holds a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a recipient of Salesforce’s company-wide All-Security Innovation Award. Her expertise spans AWS, Azure, GCP, vulnerability management, secrets management, and cloud penetration testing.
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