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
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc - Master of Science, Cyber Forensics and Information Security, 76.2%, MSc - Master of Science, Cyber Forensics and Information Security, 76.2% at University of Madras
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Computer Applications, 72.6%, Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor of Computer Applications, 72.6% at Madras Christian College
High School, Computer Science, 90.8%, High School, Computer Science, 90.8% at DAV Boys Senior Secondary School
English, Tamil, Hindi, German, Spanish