About Us

SD Solutions, LLC is a fast-growing professional services company, providing Cyber Security, Strategy & Governance, and IT Modernization solutions to large and small clients in the government, financial, and private sectors. Our broad spectrum of services also includes Strategy, Consulting, Data Science & Data Visualization, Digital & Legacy Transition, Decommissioning, Communications, and Operations.

Mission: To deliver enduring results to our clients using strong business acumen, technical solutions, and management services.

Vision: To be the company of choice for our clients, partners, employees, and the community. We make it possible by employing customer-focused resources, quality-centric processes, results-oriented methodologies, state-of-art tools and technologies, cost-effective principles, and efficient-time management techniques.

Core Values: Quality, Timeliness, Integrity, Trusted Relationship, and Corporate Citizenship.

Our capabilities

SD Solutions, LLC offers these services: cybersecurity & information assurance, legacy modernization & Agile transformation, application & platform development, strategy & governance, data & analytics, as well as professional & management consulting.

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What clients say about us

The contractor’s performance exceeded our expectation. Their level of professionalism remained consistent throughout the contract. Each step and phase of the project was, for the most part, ahead of schedule. This efficiency was of benefit, as a major modification had to be made to this project. Overall, I would state their performance was exceptional.

Acting CFO of a US federal agency

Working with SD Solutions, LLC has been a pleasure to say the least, their professionalism and attention to detail has certainly been a tremendous asset to our project. When asked to provide updates or answer questions, they are timely and their information is accurate and has assisted our personnel in making decisions as relate to our project. As the assigned contracting officer’s representative for this project, I have appreciated their great communication skills and ability to keep documents such as the invoices and work breakdown structure and other documents updated and available to myself and our team.

Contracting Officer Representative on a recently completed contract

Our team

Balaji Venkatesan

CEO and President

Balaji Venkatesan is the CEO and President of SD Solutions, LLC. He has over 20 years of experience in Engineering, Information Technology, Governance, Cybersecurity, Transformation, and Management Consulting. He worked in Banking, Transportation, Financial Services, Telecom and Public Sector across Asia, Americas, and Europe.

Balaji started his professional career as a project management professional at Citibank managing Software Products Development for Treasury and Portfolio Management Applications. Balaji worked in technical and management positions leading large global teams and programs at several Commercial and Public Sector Clients and received Awards of Excellence.

Balaji received B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, MBA with dual concentration in Finance and Management Information Systems from Anna University and Diploma in Entrepreneurship from Babson College and completed further project management and technical certifications.

Balaji is passionate about education and is part of an educational charity called Self Educate, which has been helping hundreds of students from low income families in India and USA since 2007. He started SD Solutions, LLC scholarship award in 2013 and has helped several students from rural Virginia with College Scholarship, Part-Time Jobs, Internships to help their dreams of college education become a reality.

Balaji served on the Board of Directors at the Luray-Page County Chamber of Commerce, Deans Advisory Council at Virginia International University and as a Co-Chair at NIH Community Action Group.

Chitra Dhayalan

Vice President, Strategic Programs

Ms. Chitra Dhayalan brings over 20 years of proven Federal and Industry leadership experience, as well as extensive functional expertise in IT Strategy, business development, governance, organizational transformations, leading and managing consulting delivery teams as well as P&L account and contract management. As Vice President, Strategic Programs at SD Solutions, LLC Ms. Dhayalan is responsible for new and organic growth, delivery excellence and in leading strategic programs. She is versatile in the use and application of project management (waterfall and agile) and earned value management techniques and tools, including the establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO) capability for oversight, control and management of complex projects. She is currently leading the IT Modernization service using her past experience in successful delivery in legacy applications and modern languages and frameworks.

Prior to joining SD Solutions, LLC, Ms. Dhayalan served as the Managing Director at Enquizit Inc, a leader in providing AWS cloud service, leading their business development and new product formulation. For over 16 years, Ms. Dhayalan was at the forefront of delivery of mission critical Health IT Federal mandates such as HIPAA, NPI, ICD-9, ICD-10 affecting Health Benefits, CDH to name a few at CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, DC Medicaid, NIH, and HHS.

Ms. Dhayalan is the co-chair for NITAAC’s Events and Outreach CAG and is a member of ACT-IAC, and AFCEA. Ms. Dhayalan holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from a reputed university in India. She is a certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) (2005) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and in ITIL v3 Foundation, itSMF USA in 2010.

Steven Adams

Program Director

Mr. Adams leads SD Solutions’ strategic partnership with the Internal Revenue Service, one of our largest and most valued clients. He also performs capture management for new and emerging accounts as well as spearheads many new business proposals. As well as new business development, Steven serves as the Marketing and Brand Manager for SD Solutions and also leads the company’s international business development efforts.

Prior to joining SD Solutions, Steven worked for five years as a cyber security project manager for the IRS. Outside of his Federal and IT career, Mr. Adams held several Brand, Marketing, and Advertising management positions in various retail product companies.

Sky Sharma

CISO

Sky Sharma brings an exceptional background in cybersecurity with decades of practical experience, leading certifications, and industry best practices. Sky served the U.S. Air Force for 20 years in a variety of positions, including Lead Hardware Specialist, Network Administrator, Network Security Analyst, CSO, ISSO, CIO, and CISO. In the private sector, he has experience as a Cybersecurity Analyst and Senior Cybersecurity Consultant. In addition to accumulating years of experience, he has earned a variety of relevant certifications, including Security+, CIWP, CISSP, and CCNP. Mr. Sharma is a member of the AFCEA International Cyber Committee and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.

Join our team

We are a fast-growing company who puts people first. Our focus is on building the right team to provide exceptional services to our customers and to grow with our organization. We offer very competitive compensation and a very attractive benefits package. If you are looking for a new opportunity to make a difference and build your career in a positive way, please join us. We are waiting for you.