Varun Khaneja
Software Engineering Manager at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Khaneja is a seasoned software engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading security-focused engineering at Google, where he defines strategy to protect Chrome users from phishing, malware, and other online abuse at global scale. He combines deep hands-on expertise—from early work on Acrobat and Visual Studio tooling to backend systems at Google—with leadership that aligns product and engineering priorities across large teams. Varun’s contributions to OSS-Fuzz, particularly improving fuzzing for the unrar project, underscore a practical commitment to secure software and rigorous testing. Based in San Francisco and grounded in an MS from IIT Kanpur, he pairs systems-level thinking with a track record of shipping infrastructure used trillions of times daily. He’s equally comfortable diving into low-level vulnerability analysis as he is in shaping cross-organizational protection strategies.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology at Bharati Vidyapeeth
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Github Skills (10)
fuzzing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
fuzzer10
fuzz-testing10
security10
testing9
build-automation8
bash7
ios6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
google/oss-fuzz
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 19 PRs, 42 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Varun primarily contributed to fuzzing efforts for the unrar project within the OSS-Fuzz repository. Their work involved setting up and refining fuzzing harnesses, including writing temporary files for input, manipulating file names, and interpreting memory blobs as RAR files. They optimized the fuzzing process by modifying filename strategies and integrating the latest build configurations. The user demonstrates deep involvement in testing, security, and the integration of fuzzing engines with this project.
oss-fuzzfuzz-testingossvulnerabilitiessecurity
aawc/cryptopals
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Solutions for the challenges on cryptopals.com
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
cryptopals
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