Srikanth Bellamkonda is a globally recognized and highly accomplished Network and Cybersecurity Leader, with more than a decade of impactful experience driving secure, scalable, and high-performance digital infrastructure across the financial services, banking, and healthcare industries. As the Assistant Vice President – Connectivity Service Operations at Barclays, Srikanth leads global initiatives focused on the design, deployment, and governance of secure infrastructure across core data centers, enterprise WAN, cloud gateways, DMZ environments, and remote operations, with a strategic emphasis on zero-trust segmentation, regulatory compliance, network automation, and cyber-resilience at scale. His leadership has resulted in the successful execution of enterprise-wide transformations including Fortinet firewall migrations across global regions, Cisco ACI-driven SDN rollouts, next-generation secure WAN modernization, DMZ rearchitecture for critical assets, and cloud edge security implementation, delivering significant reductions in security risk exposure, operational overhead, and incident response time. Srikanth is also the architect behind several innovative security and monitoring platforms, including AI-powered network analytics for threat detection, policy-driven micro-segmentation frameworks, and real-time traffic inspection mechanisms aligned with Zero Trust principles. He has designed and implemented automated network compliance pipelines, proactive detection modules using ML classifiers, and integrated incident correlation tools that now serve as internal gold standards for network defense and operational readiness at Barclays. His research contributions span AI/ML-driven threat modeling, cybersecurity automation and orchestration, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response design, network visibility architecture, and multi-layered anomaly detection systems, many of which have been presented and published in international conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and industry thought leadership forums. Srikanth actively serves as a technical reviewer, program committee judge, and innovation panelist for several global cybersecurity and AI conferences, including his recent engagements in BIDA 2025, WCSC2025, and CE2CT2025, where he has assessed cutting-edge work in secure automation, adversarial AI, and enterprise defense design. He is also deeply involved in academic-industry collaboration, mentoring students, research fellows, and startup founders in building secure-by-design systems and production-grade security models. Srikanth is a Fellow of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS), a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of the Forbes Technology Council, Cybersecurity Association of India (CSAI), and Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Honor Society, actively contributing to the advancement of secure and intelligent digital ecosystems. His portfolio includes designing custom monitoring tools, developing resilient network architectures for high-stakes environments, reviewing scholarly publications in cybersecurity and AI, and championing innovation programs that promote real-world security impact through practical engineering. Srikanth is known for his ability to balance deep technical leadership with strategic foresight, fostering cross-functional collaboration and embedding cybersecurity into the core of enterprise operations. His ongoing commitment to cyber defense innovation, infrastructure hardening, research excellence, and global knowledge sharing has positioned him as a respected voice and thought leader in the cybersecurity community. Through his professional work, research, and mentorship, he continues to influence the development of secure, intelligent, and sustainable technology ecosystems worldwide.