Summary
Deepak Balaji is a Senior Consultant in Assurance Technology Risk with eight years' experience turning compliance complexity into commercial advantage for SaaS, fintech, BPO, and telecom clients. He leads end-to-end attestation across SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/22301, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST 800-171 and cloud frameworks (including CSA CCM v4.0), and is known for cutting audit timelines and report turnarounds by 50%+ through standardized pathways and automation. At EY he overhauled ERP and CRM operations to reduce project overhead by 75%, co-authored proposals that accelerated pipelines, and independently managed pre-engagement risk clearances. Beyond technical delivery he mentors and has promoted 15+ associates into senior roles, blending hands-on auditing, scripting-driven efficiency, and client-facing business development. Based in Mumbai, he pairs a MSc in Cyber Forensics & Information Security with practical offensive-security roots from CTFs and red-team internships, giving him a rare mix of defensive assurance and attacker-informed insight.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc - Master of Science, Cyber Forensics and Information Security, MSc - Master of Science, Cyber Forensics and Information Security at University of Madras
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Computer Applications, Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Computer Applications at Madras Christian College
High School, Computer Science, High School, Computer Science at DAV Boys Senior Secondary School
English, Tamil, Hindi, German, Spanish