Garnik Dadoyan

Principal GRC & IT Governance Leader

Building scalable governance systems across regulated environments — automation-first, human-centered by design

IT Governance AI Ready Governance Automation-First Gentle Compliance Privacy Tech Audit GRC Frameworks Design

Verified credentials • Enterprise experience • Automation-first AI-ready governance, culture-driven adoption, and scalable evidence systems — reducing risk without slowing teams down

Open to: Principal / Staff GRC & IT Governance roles • Select advisory engagements • NYC or remote

About

I help organizations build high-trust governance and privacy programs that scale — from establishing strong foundations to maturing what already exists. My approach is Gentle Compliance: collaborative, engineering-friendly, and designed to strengthen culture while protecting businesses from high-impact risk.

I lead through influence across engineering, security, product, legal, and leadership — turning complex regulatory and technical requirements into clear governance frameworks, durable evidence standards, and automation that lasts. The goal is simple: enable teams to move faster with confidence, without accumulating invisible compliance debt.

Focused on building future-ready governance that evolves with regulation, technology, and organizational change.

How I help

Clear, practical systems that reduce risk — and feel good to operate

Enterprise privacy compliance

Commitments validation, audit support, evidence standards, and launch readiness in high-stakes environments.

GRC frameworks & maturity

Governance, control mapping, risk scoring, dashboards, and operating rhythms that teams actually follow.

Automation & SDLC integration

From evidence collection to continuous monitoring — reducing manual work and scaling compliance safely.

Solutions

Pick-and-place engagements, built for measurable outcomes

Privacy Tech Audit & Evidence Review

Validate controls, tighten evidence quality, and deliver crisp remediation plans with stakeholders aligned.

GRC Program Design & Maturity Uplift

Risk registers, control libraries, operating models, and dashboards — designed to be adopted, not ignored.

Compliance Automation / SDLC Integration

Automation-first workflows that keep engineering moving while improving audit readiness and continuous assurance.

IT & AI Governance

Practical governance for modern systems — aligning risk ownership, visibility, and decision-ready reporting.

Vendor / TPRM Assessments

Third-party risk reviews with actionable remediation paths and evidence expectations that scale.

Training & Enablement

Friendly, pragmatic education that shifts culture: “compliance as confidence,” not fear.

Signature wins

High-level summaries, shared thoughtfully. Details available in interviews

Created and scaled a privacy commitments framework with risk mitigations Built repeatable verification patterns and reporting for enterprise-scale privacy programs.

Designed evidence verification workflows and automation for large social platforms Improved evidence consistency and audit readiness through standardized verification and tooling alignment.

Led IT governance improvements for a financial organization Optimized processes while shifting culture toward automation, AI integration, and cross-functional collaboration.

Publications & Videos

Selected highlights — curated for signal, not noise

Holistic Approach to Privacy and Security in Tech (DZone) Practical perspective on building privacy and security as systems — not paperwork.

Read

How to Correctly Plan and Implement a GRC Strategy (HackerNoon) A structured guide for implementing GRC in a real digital business.

Read

Experts Shorts: GRC & Risk Management (LinkedIn video) Short-form insights on scalable GRC strategy and risk thinking.

Watch

Certifications (verified via Credly)

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ISC2 CGRC Certified in Governance, Risk and Compliance Verify

ISC2 CC Certified in Cybersecurity Verify

Contact

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