Nick Steele is a security researcher and identity expert from Brooklyn, New York. He is a contributor and co-chair in the W3C, where has been working on WebAuthn and its adoption since 2017. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, previously was an Identity Architect at 1Password, and has been focussed on digital identity security and standards for over a decade. He likes bees, surfing, and occasionally, computers.