I’m happy to share that today is my 2-year anniversary at Okta! This would make more sense if I’d originally announced on this blog that I’d changed jobs and started working at Okta, so I’ll take a moment to recap what’s happened in the past two years, and some of the milestones and accomplishments I’m most proud of.

Before joining Okta, I worked at Salesforce for 10 years, and had many opportunities to move around within the mobile organization to kick start new products and teams, solve complex challenges, and grow personally and professionally along the way.

There’s so many great projects I worked on, crunchy technical problems I solved, colleagues I worked with, and achievements I’m proud of, that I can’t possibly recount them all. At a high level, I’m happy that I was able to make such a positive impact. However, a decade is a long time to spend at a single company, and it’s great to work on something new.

Near the end of my time at Salesforce I was the lead developer on the Salesforce Service SDK team, developing native SDKs to enable mobile developers to embed customer support features into their applications on iOS and Android. I really enjoyed developing tools that had two completely different audiences: 1) End users, and 2) Developers.

Having the opportunity to focus on clean APIs and generalized solutions to target multiple use-cases, I got hooked on SDK development.

As a result, after shopping around at a variety of companies, I decided to accept a role at Okta on their Client SDKs team.

Fast forward to now, I’m a Principal Engineer architecting and leading the development of Mobile SDKs for Okta, focusing on secure authentication for native applications.

In fact, I recently released the okta-mobile-swift SDK which replaces our aging mobile SDKs, and sets the stage for our future direction. Continuing my tradition of blogging and knowledge-sharing, I wrote an article on the Okta Developer Blog announcing our new SDKs.

I’ve quickly moved on to Phase 2 of my architectural roadmap, which hopefully I’ll be able to talk about in more detail soon.

At the end of the day, I’m happy to be able to work out in the public eye, developing Open Source Software once again, interacting directly with developers consuming my tools, and writing software to make it easy for app developers to make secure decisions.

My Okta Github user is mikenachbaur-okta, so if you’re curious about what I’m doing here, come check me out!