Vishal V.

About

I design and secure the infrastructure organisations cannot afford to lose. [guess i should add "passionate"]Enterprise infrastructure and security architect, London. CISSP certified (ISC2, August 2026), CIISec Full Member and membership assessor, MBCS, working towards CITP and Chartered Cybersecurity Professional.The same discipline now applies to AI. As firms pull workloads back on-premises and stand up their own HPC and GPU clusters, the hard problems are physical: power, cooling, fabric, storage and security.HARDWARE, HPC AND AI INFRASTRUCTUREI have built data centres from empty room to production, not designed them on paper.NVIDIA Certified Professional, AI Infrastructure. InfiniBand from HCI fabric work. Slurm, Rafay. Nutanix NCP-AILed an AI start-up through ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certificationWHERE I WORKData centre design, build, migration and exit. Cloud repatriation. Hybrid and multi-cloud across VMware, Nutanix, Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes and Red Hat.Security architecture, ISO 27001 and 42001, NCSC CAF, NIST CSF and SP 800-61, incident response and threat hunting, identity and PKI, zero trust, EDR and XDR, BC/DR and resilience.Regulated delivery across government, policing, healthcare, local authority and finance. BPSS, CTC and NPPV Level 2 held previously, eligible for re-clearance.SFIA Level 6 (Initiate and Influence), with selected Level 7 strategic responsibilities.LOOKING FORPermanent senior leadership: Head of Infrastructure, IT Director, Enterprise Architect, AI Platform Architect, Head of Cyber Security. London or hybrid, open to remote.I also run Phat Monkey IT Ltd, a fractional CISO and architecture practice for contract work such as HPC installations, Infrastructure or Security workvishalvashisht.com | vishalvashisht.substack.com | vish@vishalvashisht.com

Specialties

• CISO / Security Leadership
• Cloud Security
• Cybersecurity Consulting
• Infrastructure Security
• Zero Trust Architecture

Licenses & Certifications

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional

  ISC²

  Issued Aug 2026 · Expires Aug 2029

• Nutanix Certified Professional - Network & Security 7

  Nutanix

  Issued Apr 2026 · Expires Apr 2029

• NVIDIA-Certified Professional: AI Infrastructure

  NVIDIA

  Issued Feb 2026 · Expires Feb 2028

9 certifications in total

Experience

• Director and Chief Consultant

  Phat Monkey

  Jun 2016 — Present

  Greater London, England, United Kingdom

• Infrastructure Architect

  Cabinet Office

  Sep 2023 — Sep 2024

  London Area, United Kingdom

• datacenter migration architect

  Haringey Council

  Dec 2022 — Aug 2023

  London Area, United Kingdom

13 experiences in total

Education

• Loughborough University

  Bachelors, Computing

  Sep 1996 — Sep 1999

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