I'm a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research with over four years of experience focused on zero trust, agentic security, and multicloud security. I specialize in secure-by-default, identity-first approaches.
I'm a maintainer of the Kagenti (rossoctl) project towards platform primitives that establish a zero-trust architecture. I'm also a maintainer of the open-source Tornjak project (SPIFFE community) where I help drive the adoption of SPIRE as an open-source identity standard for secure cloud-native ecosystems.
I'm passionate about sharing knowledge through talks and blogs. My current research focuses on how zero trust security principles apply to the emerging agentic world.