Sharath Unni
Principal Security Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSharath Unni is a Principal Security Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of hands-on offensive security experience, leading Red Teams and driving large-scale security initiatives for cloud data platforms. He blends deep technical skills in penetration testing and incident response with proven leadership—mentoring teams, establishing governance, and running proactive engagements to harden services. His background spans enterprise and vendor-side roles across retail, finance, and consumer tech, where he built testing programs, selected vendors, and translated findings into prioritized remediation. Known for evangelizing secure practices to engineers and executives alike, he brings a pragmatic, risk-focused approach that connects technical vulnerabilities to business impact. Based in Kirkland, WA, Sharath keeps a forward-looking posture on emerging threats and security tooling, often turning lessons from red team ops into training and CTFs to raise organizational maturity.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityB.E Electronics and communication Engineering, B.E Electronics and communication Engineering at BMS Institute of Technology, Bangalore
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (16)
enumeration9
mitre-attack9
penetration-testing9
portable8
collaboration2
active-directory2
padding1
automation1
azure1
ssl1
cve1
oracle1
openssl1
cryptography1
terraform1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sharathunni/auto-recon-ng
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Automated script to run all modules for a specified list of domains, netblocks or company name
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 6 months
reconnaissancedomain-enumerationinformationgatheringrecon-ngpenetration-testing
sharathunni/haxorhead
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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