Nishanth L Vasisht — Audit Manager & Technology Leader

Professional Summary

Audit manager and technology leader with 9+ years in statutory audit and financial compliance, alongside a year building production-grade internal platforms and AI-enabled audit tools. Leads large audit engagements at Varma & Varma while independently designing and operating the firm's in-house SaaS stack used by 160+ staff. Experience spans audit automation, cloud infrastructure, and secure application design.

Professional Experience

Jul 2022 – Present

Varma & Varma Chartered Accountants

Audit Manager and Team Lead, Innovation and Technology · Bengaluru

Leads statutory audits for large enterprises (turnover above ₹500 crores) across construction, mining, and telecom; manages 15+ annual engagements covering planning, execution, team supervision, and final review.
Built and operates a 28-application internal SaaS platform used daily by 160+ firm staff, including reverse proxy, SSO, monitoring, logging, alerting, and backup architecture.
Developed AI-based audit tools (AuditGuard, DataSense Pro, FraudGuard, Treasury Audit Platform) using Azure AI Foundry for journal-entry testing, risk analytics, and narrative generation.
Implemented ISO 27001:2022 technical controls across backup, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and change management; strengthened application security through VAPT remediation.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2022

Independent Consulting Practice

Principal Consultant · Bengaluru

Provided accounting, taxation, and compliance advisory to micro and small businesses; managed GST, income-tax, and financial compliance for owner-managed entities.
Advised Tier 2 and Tier 3 PSU vendors on statutory and procurement-related compliance; helped clients improve reporting discipline for government-facing business.

Nov 2011 – Jan 2018

Varma & Varma Chartered Accountants

Articled Assistant / Audit Executive · Bengaluru

Executed statutory audit engagements for multinational telecom subsidiaries with cross-border compliance considerations and warehousing / transportation entities, including a post-IPO environment.
Built early experience in statutory audit execution, documentation, and client coordination.

Technical Projects

2024 – Present

Varma Hosting Platform

Built and maintains a 28-service Docker-based SaaS environment on VPS infrastructure; designed shared authentication, secure access, monitoring, logging, backup, and deployment workflows.
Supports zero-downtime releases and isolated beta testing for internal applications.

2024 – Present

AI Audit Suite

Internal suite (AuditGuard, DataSense Pro, FraudGuard, Treasury Audit Platform) with LLM-enabled workflows covering audit planning, risk assessment, fraud testing, analytics, and workpaper support.
Resolved async processing and database-pool stability issues in Celery-based AI pipelines; integrated litellm over Azure AI Foundry.

Education

Apr 2012

Bachelor of Commerce

Bangalore University · Completed under correspondence while appearing for Chartered Accountancy Exams

May 2011

Integrated Professional Competency Course (IPCC)

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Skills & Expertise

Audit

Statutory, Tax & Internal Audit
Ind AS
IGAAP
GST
FEMA
Income-tax Act
ISO 27001:2022

Backend & Data

Python
FastAPI
Celery
PostgreSQL
asyncpg
SQL
REST APIs

Frontend

React
TypeScript
SPA architecture

Infrastructure

Docker
Docker Compose
Traefik
Authentik
Headscale

Observability

Grafana
Loki
Alloy
Prometheus
Uptime Kuma
Trivy
VAPT remediation
secure coding controls

AI & Automation

Azure AI Foundry
litellm
audit rule engines
AI-assisted analytics

Leadership

Team management
audit review
internal controls
risk identification
Excel/VBA
data visualisation