Varun Sharma
Founder at StepSecurity
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVarun Sharma is a security-focused engineering leader and founder with eight years of listed experience and a long track record at Microsoft where he progressed from Security Engineer to Principal Security Software Engineering Manager. Since 2021 he has channeled that expertise into founding StepSecurity, serving as CEO/Co-Founder and building practical security products from a deep operational background. He combines hands-on secure software development with team leadership and threat-focused engineering, informed by an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway. Varun’s career blends enterprise-scale security program delivery with startup execution, making him comfortable moving between strategic risk decisions and low-level technical implementation. Based in Redmond, he brings a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to security that emphasizes measurable outcomes and deployable defenses. A habit of continuous learning and crossing the gap between research-level security concepts and production systems is a distinguishing, if understated, strength.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Information Security (distance learning) Information Security, MSc in Information Security (distance learning) Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (200)
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threejs10
web-application10
ui-components10
data-manipulation10
fuse10
proxy10
instrumentation10
javascript-framework10
chat10
numerics10
code-generation10
automation10
language-design10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
step-security/wait-for-secrets
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Publish from GitHub Actions using multi-factor authentication
Contributions:9 releases, 33 reviews, 69 commits in 7 months
publishsecuritymulti-factorauthenticationfactor
step-security/create-json
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
Github Action to create a .json file to use in other steps of the workflow
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 7 PRs in 10 months
step-security-maintained-actions
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