Nishanth L Vasisht

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


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.

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.

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


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.

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


Bachelor of Commerce

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

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