Varun Kohli
Senior Software Security Engineer at Microsoft
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolVarun Kohli is a Senior Software Security Engineer at Microsoft with over a decade of experience focused on SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel, and identity/access management. He led development of ASIM log normalization for 100+ telemetry sources and built automation that cut parser review time from days to under an hour, blending security engineering with SRE practices. CISSP and Azure Security (AZ-500) certified, he designs scalable detection rules, data connectors, workbooks and dashboards that drive actionable insights across large enterprise environments. Varun also developed an AI-driven security content review service using LLMs to evaluate Sentinel analytics, reflecting a practical interest in applying ML to security operations. Based in Noida, he combines deep hands-on engineering with mentoring and cross-functional collaboration to improve SIEM consistency, coverage and operational efficiency.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering at ICFAI University
Hindi, English
Github Skills (14)
intelligent10
cybersecurity10
kubernetes10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
cloud-native10
kql10
microsoft10
analytics10
security10
graph3
backup3
policies3
monitor3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vakohl/vakohlASIMRepoTest
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:19 PRs, 164 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
vakohl/azure-docs
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year
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