About - Engineer who does consulting, not a consultant who talks about engineering.
I work with companies at inflection points where identity infrastructure needs to actually work. The kind of work where getting it wrong locks people out of production.
Rob
I built and ran identity systems at Slack on the Identity team, including a FedRAMP High IDP migration where nobody got locked out. Staff-level engineering work: provisioning pipelines, entitlement governance, certificate-based SSH infrastructure, compliance automation. Before that, SPS Commerce and other enterprise environments where identity was the thing that had to work or nothing else did.
What persona.how is
I work with companies at inflection points: growing past the point where manual identity management works, facing an audit, going through an acquisition, entering a regulated market. I come in, do the work, hand it off, and leave. The goal is a system your team can run without me.
How engagements work
- Starts with a conversation to understand what you are dealing with.
- Fixed scope, clear end date. Not staff augmentation.
- Weekly check-ins, written deliverables, no surprises.
- Ends with a handoff session where your team takes over.
Good fit
- You have 200+ employees.
- You have a decision-maker involved.
- You need identity work done, not a body in a seat.
Not a good fit
- You want someone to sit in your org chart.
- You need endpoint security, network security, or SOC work.
- You want a vendor reseller.
Platforms and protocols
These are the systems I work in.
Platforms: Okta, Entra ID, SailPoint, Auth0, AWS SSO.
Protocols: SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, SCIM.