Engineering Lead

Identity as a Service (IDaaS)


Key Success Factors

  • Bridged the gap between product and engineering

  • Excellence in documentation

  • Fast learning of new technical and domain knowledge

Key Responsibilities

Technical Design Leadership:

  • Distilled product vision into the design and implementation of complex OAuth/OIDC and identity proofing flows with 50+ permutations aligned to NIST 800-63 guidelines.

  • Meticulously crafted SDK-driven flows to minimize technical complexity for customers and curate superior developer experiences.

Engineering Management:

  • Promoted to tech lead in 2021, expanding role to encompass solution architecture and influence tech strategy, including significant contributions to DevOps.

  • Built and nurtured fully-remote team of 12 engineers through effective hiring and coaching. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Forged strong alliances with product, security, and cloud platform teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.

Achievements

Technical and Strategic Impact: Delivered product vision that interweaves advanced fraud mitigation capabilities with embedded next-gen authentication tech (i.e. Passkeys/WebAuthn, DPoP), poised for market launch.

Leadership Excellence: Consistently exceeded expectations, earning annual promotions; entrusted with the engineering budget of $X.X million.

Project Milestones:

  • Effectively navigated complex corporate and legal compliance landscapes, significantly contributing to the project's progression towards a market-ready state.

  • Authored comprehensive developer documentation and developed core components, including GDPR and CCPA compliant consent logic, which were crucial to advancing project maturity.

Anticipated Impact

Safeguard more than 30 million consumers in first year, drive substantial revenue through network effects, and significantly influence the industry's approach to account protection.