Tim Hinrichs is the co-founder and CTO of Styra as well as the co-creator of Open Policy Agent (OPA). Before that, he co-founded the OpenStack Congress project and was a software engineer at VMware. Tim spent the last 18 years developing declarative languages for different domains such as cloud computing, software-defined networking, configuration management, web security, and access-control. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.