Senior Staff Software Engineer
CurrentAt Strata Identity, I took on the role of a Tech Lead which was responsible for driving high-level architectural discussions with the team, working with the Product team to break work down into manageable epics and stories and growing the team amongst other responsibilities.I worked on building their Identity Orchestration platform. This included components such as an LDAP attribute provider which implemented portions of the LDAP spec and OIDC Authorization Provider which implemented portions of the OIDC spec. I also contributed to their Service Extension framework which allowed for users to write Golang code into specific hooks into the product.As part of an already awesome team, I contributed to building the teams TDD skills and promoting pair programming which improved collaboration amongst our remote team. It also improved code quality, knowledge sharing and sped up software delivery. I had the opportunity to contribute to patents filed by Strata to enhance their Identity Orchestration platform and built out the initial MVP implementation of one of them.I had the opportunity to work with our amazing Sales Engineering team to implement POC solutions that led to over five customer deals. I also contributed to multiple successful customer deployments working with our fantastic Professional Services team.I also contributed to our open-source project IDQL/Hexa Policy Orchestration project and submitted it to CNCF as a Sandbox Project.Other responsibilities included - interviewing and hiring for the team.- improving product documentation and user experience.- planning for various project initiatives.- creating tutorials and internal talks to educate various teams above on security practices and service extension development.- working with Office of the CTO to productize and codify various POC solutions.Memorable Quotes/Values used in this role:- Slow is Smooth, Smooth is fast.- Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance.- Secure By Default.