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Anshuman Bhartiya

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Staff Security Engineer at Lyft
📍 San Diego, California, United States

Anshuman Bhartiya is the AppSec Tech Lead at Lyft, leveraging over a decade of experience to build and scale security programs. A graduate of Arizona State University, he is a frequent conference speaker and a technical advisor to several cybersecurity startups. Colleagues describe him as knowledgeable, innovative, and a rare talent.

Beyond his role at Lyft, Anshuman co-hosts “The Boring AppSec Podcast” and runs the associated community. He actively contributes to open-source projects, shares his tech explorations on his personal website, and writes about his self-reflections on Substack, showcasing a passion for continuous learning and community involvement.

He built a prototype AI agent capable of triaging vulnerabilities by reasoning across multiple code repositories within an organization.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Staff Security Engineer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Diego, California, United States
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AI in AppSec
He frequently speaks and writes about leveraging AI and LLMs to tackle application security challenges, such as vulnerability detection and tech spec reviews.
AI Agent Development
Actively experiments with building offensive and defensive AI security agents, sharing his lessons learned through talks and his personal blog.
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Career

Work history

12-2022
Staff Security Engineer
Lyft
1-2026
Author
The Boring AppSec Community
7-2025
Advisor
Heeler
2024
Member
AI Frontier Network
2024
Executive Member - Cyber Security Professional's Network
Tejas Cyber Network
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Media appearances

'Inside Security' with Anshuman Bhartiya (Staff Security Engineer, Lyft). Featured in Leen.dev
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Education
2008 - 2010
Masters in Computer Science
Arizona State University
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