#LifeAtOkta

Okta’s Professional Services team empowers customers to achieve time-to-value and return-on-investment to fuel Okta’s growth and impact in their environment. They do this by prescribing solutions and strategic implementation approaches to meet business challenges. Leading the charge for the West region is Florence Sullivan, regional VP of…

It’s that time of year again! New Year’s resolutions have been set, but turns out only 9.2% of us will actually follow through with them. At Okta, we’re lucky to have learning and development partner, Jen Ryan, to help us set attainable career goals that we nurture year-round. After recently completing Okta’s “Owning Your Career” workshop, I was…

Morgan Eisler, lead UX researcher at Okta, gets to “pick people’s brains for a living”. A vital link between our customers and product, Morgan spends her days working cross-functionally to discover Okta’s research needs and then work with customers to make sure our products deliver and meet their needs. After getting a taste of Morgan’s work in…

When a former work colleague asked me to join her for volunteering five years ago, I’ll be honest — I didn’t want to go. The event was with an organization that helped homeless clients connect with social service providers in San Francisco. I didn’t see myself as a “volunteer” or “do-gooder type,” and homelessness, especially in San Francisco,…

When I sat down with our APAC corporate account executive, Drey Liautaud (virtually, unfortunately), he couldn’t help but brag about his conference room view-- the iconic Sydney harbour. But Drey has been growing Okta’s presence in APAC long before the opening of our new office. Read on to learn about his journey from a sales development…

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month, but for hackers, every day is spent staying aware of new cybersecurity threats. We were excited to sit down with Matias Brutti, Okta’s senior manager of research and exploitation, whose team spends time hacking to keep Okta’s customers safe from any potential vulnerabilities. Read on to see how…

Matt Raible, a developer advocate at Okta, helps developers create secure, seamless customer experiences by building apps, writing new code, authoring countless blog posts (and even a few books!), and sharing his experiences onstage at meetups, user groups, and conferences across the country. Probably not what you’d expect from someone who grew up…

I joined Okta three and a half years ago to launch our APAC operations. Those early discussions at our first Sydney HQ – my kitchen – were focused on the massive opportunity to usher in the next generation of technology, the cloud, which then was only just starting to take off in APAC. We quickly set out to establish ourselves in the technology…

Programmer’s Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year, and this year, it’s on Wednesday, September 13. This number is important in the binary space, the mathematical foundations that computer science is built on. Computer values are stored in bits, and 8 bits form a byte. With all its binary combinations, a single byte can store amounts from…

At one of our Oktane17 super-sessions, Girls Who Code Founder and CEO Reshma Saujani gave a powerful talk about the need for more women filling technical roles. "We have to close the gender gap so we don't leave powerful technical solutions on the sidelines,” she urged, sharing the stories of some of the 40,000 young women who have participated in…