Akash Sharma
Summary
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RockstarAkash Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of experience building planet-scale, security-first distributed services at Microsoft, currently focused on M365. He has led crews across authentication, identity, and infrastructure modernization, responded to and mitigated multiple zero-day Exchange vulnerabilities, and contributed security fixes to high-profile projects such as microsoft/CSS-Exchange. Comfortable owning end-to-end design and execution, he has driven Azure-based infrastructure services, hybrid mailflow migrations, and high-visibility escalations for large customers. Academically strong with an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech (4.0) and a B.Tech from IIT Mandi, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with practical incident-response chops. Notably, his early work on anomaly detection and reinforcement-learning HVAC controls was picked up for business use and patenting, reflecting an aptitude for turning research into production impact.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
iis10
powershell10
network-security10
vulnerability-assessment10
security-hardening10
iis-server10
exchange-server10
automation9
automations9
web-security8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/CSS-Exchange
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Exchange Server support tools and scripts
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 41 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily focused on improving and maintaining security tools and scripts for Exchange Server, specifically targeting vulnerabilities like CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-26857, and CVE-2021-27065. Their contributions involved reducing false positives in vulnerability checks, enhancing logging, and implementing mitigation strategies, including IP filtering. They also made changes to the Extended Protection management, which encompassed both configuration and validation aspects of these mitigations.
exchangeexchange-serversupport-toolsmicrosoft
SharmaAkash1/CSS-Exchange
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Exchange Server support tools and scripts
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 days
exchangeexchange-serversupport-tools
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