Varun Kakumani
Senior Security Engineer at talabat
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolVarun Kakumani is a Senior Security Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience securing large-scale consumer products across startups and tech giants, currently protecting Talabat’s mobile, web, and API surfaces from Dubai. He combines practical offensive skills—threat modeling, pentesting, and security code review—with engineering-led automation, having built an automated secret-detection pipeline and CI gate to block non-compliant builds. Varun has scaled product security programs and tooling at companies like GoTo and Tractable, authoring custom SCA and DAST solutions and delivering security metrics for executive decision-making. His background includes protecting millions of users at Google from malicious Chrome extensions and designing honeypots and IP-intelligence algorithms at Amazon, showing a mix of research-driven defenses and production-grade automation. Colleagues describe him as a builder who embeds security into the SDLC while keeping developer velocity high.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Telugu, English
Github Skills (112)
penetration-testing10
hotmail10
security10
gmail10
dependency-track10
vulnerability-detection10
ci-cd-pipeline10
scanner10
cyclonedx10
mobile-application10
owasp10
vulnerability-assessment10
methodology10
android-application10
sca10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kakumanivrn/competitor_watch
Mar 2014 - Dec 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 6 years 10 months
kakumanivrn/email_password_cracker
Mar 2014 - Nov 2022
A PHP tool to perform dictionary attacks on Gmail, Microsoft Live and Hotmail accounts.
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 years 9 months
dictionarymicrosoft-livephpgmailaccounts
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.