About Vishal Vashisht

Founder, Phat Monkey IT Ltd

Cybersecurity & Cloud Infrastructure Consultant | London

Vishal Vashisht, an experienced cybersecurity and infrastructure specialist based in Wimbledon, London. Graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Computing & Management and now with decades of experience delivering complex technology projects in highly regulated environments, Phat Monkey IT Ltd was founded to provide senior-level expertise directly to organisations that value quality, flexibility, and results.

His career spans global enterprises, financial services, and public sector organisations. Vishal has held key infrastructure roles across public and private sector, including the NHS over COVID and worked on projects that have been seen in the news under highly pressured environments.

A member of both the British Computing Society and the Charted Institute of Information Security, he is currently volunteering with CIISEC doing assessments for membership applications & working toward Chartered in Cybersecurity, Chartered in Computing & the CISSP.

What we Do

We help organisations design, secure, and optimise their cloud and hybrid environments. His focus is on practical, outcome-driven solutions in:

Cloud Security & Architecture — AWS and Azure security posture, landing zone design, and secure migrations

On Premises & Data Centre — Having worked in large multi million pound installations, he has designed, built, installed & secured Data centre & Server Room deployments

Virtualisation — Decades of VMWare & Nutanix experience along with Hyper-V culminate in not only architecture but also migration planning and implementation

Zero Trust Implementation — Network access controls, identity, and micro-segmentation

Infrastructure as Code Security — Hardening Terraform, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes environments

Compliance & Risk Management — ISO27001, NIS2, Cyber Essentials, and UK/EU regulatory frameworks

Incident Response & Resilience — Building robust recovery capabilities and reducing attack surface

Whether you need strategic security architecture, a targeted risk assessment, cloud infrastructure hardening, or ongoing expert consultancy, you work directly with us — not a junior team or account manager.

Our Approach

Phat Monkey IT Ltd is deliberately boutique and engineer-owned. You won’t find rigid service tiers or one-size-fits-all solutions here. we work the way you work — with transparency, agility, and a genuine focus on reducing risk while enabling your business goals.

Clients value my ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language, my hands-on delivery style, and our track record of delivering results in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.

Based in Wimbledon, London — serving clients across the World.