Arjun Kumar
Staff Security Engineer - Appsec at Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArjun Kumar is a Staff Security Engineer specializing in application security with 14 years of experience, currently leading AppSec efforts at Airbnb in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Airbnb, bringing deep hands-on expertise in pentesting, design reviews, threat modeling, and container security across diverse stacks including PHP, Python, Java, C++ and embedded Lua. Earlier roles at MZ and WhiteHat solidified his background in static analysis, .NET/Mono security research, and reusable security tooling that improves developer hygiene. Known for running internal CTFs and onboarding engineers to practical pentesting, he blends technical leadership with people-focused knowledge transfer. He’s pragmatic about balancing product velocity and risk, often translating complex security findings into actionable developer-friendly libraries and processes. Not currently open to opportunities, he continues to shape AppSec strategy at scale within a major consumer platform.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Manipal Institute of TechnologyDelhi Public School - R. K. Puram
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
lua9
rpg8
ogre3d8
cegui7
game-development6
react2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
junrw/CodeChefChallenges
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
worldforge/ember
May 2012 - Sep 2012
The main client for the Worldforge MMORPG system.
Contributions:81 commits in 3 months
luagamerpgogre3dgame-development
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