Kunal Varudkar is a Security Engineer R&D with 9 years of experience specializing in automotive and web application penetration testing, now based in Aachen. He blends hands-on vulnerability assessment, exploit development, and secure code review across C, Java, and Python with DevSecOps practices like SAST/DAST and secure CI/CD pipelines. His background includes hardware-focused testing of automotive ECUs and IoT devices, giving him rare expertise at the intersection of embedded systems and application security. Kunal has worked across product security teams at Informatica and research-driven roles at Utimaco, bringing both enterprise product experience and R&D rigor. An avid coder and Hack The Box practitioner (username: payload), he automates assessments and toolchains to scale security findings into actionable remediation. He is known for pragmatic, tool-driven approaches using Burp Suite, OpenVAS and custom scripts to turn deep technical findings into measurable security improvements.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Pg Diploma, PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems and Security, 70.10%, Pg Diploma, PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems and Security, 70.10% at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
10th, SSC, 10th, SSC at St Teresa's english medium high school, Jalgaon
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Shram sadhna trust college of engneering & technology, Bambhori, Jalgaon
Diploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at G.H.Raisoni Polytechnic
Contributions:7 PRs, 38 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 10 months
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