Vijai Krishna
Associate Director - HC & LS - Risk And Compliance Lead
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVijai Krishna is an experienced risk and compliance leader with 8 years in IT audits, GDPR data privacy, and life-sciences regulatory compliance, currently serving as Associate Director at Cognizant. He combines technical IT-audit expertise and computer systems validation with commercial skills in business development and bid management, enabling him to translate regulatory requirements into pragmatic control frameworks. He leads audit planning, IT risk assessment, and independent validation of remediations while coaching teams on methodology and KPIs. His background in pharmacy and long history of client-facing roles gives him a rare blend of domain knowledge and stakeholder diplomacy that helps bridge technical teams and regulators. Despite a compact GitHub presence, he emphasizes hands-on coding curiosity—"LOVE TO CODE"—which informs a pragmatic, automation-friendly approach to controls and compliance.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PGPM, Marketing Management, B.Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, B Pharm, Pharmacy, HSC, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, PGPM, Marketing Management, B.Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, B Pharm, Pharmacy, HSC, Biology, Chemistry, Physics at Chennai Business School
C L Baid Metha College of Pharmacy
A V Meiyappan HSS
English, Tamil
Github Skills (3)
code-server2
javascript1
server1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vijaicv/youcuredme
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 10 PRs, 32 pushes in 7 months
vijaicv/Bookworm
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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