Seven Years at Okta, Briefly

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After a little over seven years, I left Okta last month. Here’s a quick look back.

I joined in July 2018 to run the EMEA Technical Operations SRE team. For most of that time my teams were keeping Okta’s identity platform running for hundreds of thousands of organisations and millions of users, with billions of authentications a month going through it.

Building a Platform We Weren't Allowed to Run

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Over the last few years a good chunk of my time at Okta has gone on compliance: PCI, GDPR and HIPAA, and then the US government programmes, FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High and DoD IL4.

The lower levels are mostly about showing you do what you say you do. The higher levels also restrict who is allowed to do it. For the most sensitive environments, anyone operating the platform had to be a US citizen working on US soil.

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Seven Years at Okta, Briefly

Building a Platform We Weren't Allowed to Run