Spencer Varney
Sr. Security Engineer at Netflix
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Varney is a Senior Security Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience bridging InfoSec, DevOps, and systems administration to reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. At Netflix he focuses on risk management, establishing security best practices, and delivering custom tooling to harden production environments. His background as a hands-on sysadmin and help-desk automation lead gives him a practical, systems-first perspective when designing secure, scalable solutions. An active contributor to the Google APIs .NET client, he’s improved authorization flows to support incremental scopes—showing a knack for pragmatic improvements to widely used open-source libraries. Known for a curiosity-driven approach to technology (and the occasional bad pun), he blends code, policy, and process to make security both usable and effective.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology at SUNY Geneseo
Italian, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
google-api10
authorizations10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
authorization10
dotnet-core10
googleapis10
csharp10
oauth10
apidoc9
api9
powershell6
bitbucket6
bitbucket-server6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-api-dotnet-client
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Google APIs Client Library for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 60 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily focused on enhancing the Google APIs Client Library for .NET by adding features and making improvements to the authorization process. Their contributions included adding support for the `include_granted_scopes` authorization parameter, which allows for incremental authorization. They also refined the code by resolving comment typos and refactoring the authorization flow to support direct calls to the `AuthorizeAsyncCore` method, enhancing flexibility.
dotnetclient-libraryc-sharpcsharpgoogle-apis
squid808/PagerDuty-PoSh-API-Client
Jan 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 6 comments in 5 years 4 months
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