I have been lucky enough to work in customer identity space for the last 8 years, but I have worked as a software engineer for over 2 decades at IBM, Expedia Group, and Udemy. I’ve been fortunate enough to lead consumer identity projects relating to authentication, authorization, and access control, at a time when microservices have presented new challenges to how we scale identity. I’ve spent time in both user and machine identity, and am very interested in speaking to identity’s role in creating flexible products that are API First.