Thread by @vibronet

Yesterday I celebrated 4 years at @auth0... what an amazing ride!
Working here is an absolute dream, and joining forces with @okta is a force multiplier 💪
Here's a🧵with a compilation of my favorite projects - the ones I can talk about in public anyway 😜
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I started on 5/1/18, press release & all: linkedin.com/posts/vittorio…
@eugenio_pace says to all new hires: "We don't hire smart people to tell them what to do: we hire smart people so they can tell US what to do!"
Not sure if I am smart or not, but I was given amazing freedom🚀2/n

When I joined, we were growing at crazy speed. The identity industry could not supply experts fast enough, so my first big task was devising an onboarding path to turn potential into identity IQ. Result: a 3 days of full immersion w lectures and labs.
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We eventually opened up the content to non-employees, for free: you can find the videos and labs at

https://twitter.com/auth0/status/1143564199492300800

and an ebook at

https://twitter.com/auth0/status/1240008257349050368

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The symbols used in the onboardings became an internal standard for the visual representation of identity concepts, greatly improving comms clarity.
We open sourced them at identicons.dev - today you see them used across the industry (eg bok.idpro.org/article/id/38/) 5/n

And speaking of @idpro_org, I was able to amp up my participation and contribute to important initiatives such as the creation of a certification for identity professionals idpro.org/cidpro/ 6/n

Another thing I worked on: a complete representation of @auth0 processing pipeline & extensibility💪
As a visual person I just needed it, so I worked with eng & design to craft a visualization that has since been used everywhere

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1136343092087468033

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1128447741267308544

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I left my personal blog cloudidentity.com untouched for 4 years, both because I am busy doing stuff I love and because when I feel there's something important for me to say, I can blog on auth0.com! See

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1037413335598280704

or

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1082690490581962752

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I was able to engage far more deeply with standard bodies.
I had the time to work with the IETF OAuth WG to standardize guidance devs really needed IMO (datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9068/) and working on the next one with my friend @__b_c mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/oauth… 9/n

Still on standards: I am now on the board of directors of the @openid Foundation (okta.com/press-room/pre…) and immensely enjoying the chance of contributing to the strategic direction. We have been working on upcoming improvements I have been wanting for years 🤩 10/n

When Apple introduced ITP2 in '18, breaking SPAs, I found myself rallying a cross vendors coalition-

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1010273749373874176

- that didn't change much but prepared me for the work I am doing at w3.org/community/fed-… w my friends @sphcow & @timcappalli 11/n

I do less dev conferences, but I did and do a lot of identity ones now - #EIC, RSA, #IIW, Gartner IAM, Identity Week, @AuthenticateCon ...and I've been serving as topic lead (dev, arch, protocols) for @Identiverse throughout my whole Auth0 tenure 12/n

A couple of years back I had this crazy idea of having a podcast to make identity standards more accessible, and I received only encouragement from my bosses - the result is identityunlocked.com, whose popularity never ceases to surprise/delight me😅 13/n

Joining forces with Okta gave me new amazing colleagues like @aaronpk (w whom I do the OAuth HH! ) & @jankytweet 14/n

In the crazy things department, I have a couple of delighters. The first is a literal shower thought for a simple educational game for learning OAuth- I shared the idea w marketing, they just said "love it", a couple of months later it was real swag! linkedin.com/posts/vittorio… 15/n

The second is an anime with a character I inspired 😅 they literally introduce it as "super vittorio" - which in turn inspired a card in the Cards Against Identity game! 16/n

This thread doesn't cover the work I do with feature teams, which I absolutely love <3 the initiatives I can most easily mention are the ones I've done with Labs, Like Auth0 Explorer

https://twitter.com/auth0/status/1187098873409523713

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1232762585243668480

or the VR SDK

https://twitter.com/Auth0Lab/status/1504179722623897606

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What can I say - this has been an amazing ride so far! I am immensely grateful to @woloski & @eugenio_pace for having built @auth0 and welcomed me in it. ❤️

https://twitter.com/vibronet/status/1016476271046418432

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