Cybersecurity
10 Okta engineering leaders
These ten engineering leaders hold or have held chief technology officer, senior vice president and vice president of engineering roles at Okta, across Auth0, infrastructure, workforce identity, governance and platform engineering. Readers can learn from them how an identity company builds and runs engineering for products that customers rely on to sign in every day.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Trachtenberg
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Of Engineering for Identity Management, Workforce · Okta
Vice President Of Engineering for Identity Management, Workforce at Okta since February 2024; his profile says he leads the Identity Management team for Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud, covering directories, governance (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), connectors and security posture management. At Okta he was also Vice President Of Engineering for Access Management, Workforce (2023–2024) and Vice President Of Engineering for Developer Experience (2020–2022).
Ajay Keni
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Okta
Vice President of Engineering at Okta since June 2026; his profile says the role covers product development for Okta Identity Governance and Okta Privileged Access. Keni was CTO and Head of Engineering at OneSpan from 2020 to 2023 and Vice-President, Head of Product, Engineering & CloudOps, IAM Cloud & Enterprise Products at Oracle from 2018 to 2020.
Andrew Yu
LinkedInExperience: VP of Engineering · Okta
VP of Engineering at Okta since January 2020; his profile says he heads Platform Engineering, driving cloud strategy, infrastructure engineering and operations for Auth0, and lists him as a co-creator of PostgreSQL. Yu was Sr Director of Engineering at VMware from 2012 to 2019 and Director of Engineering at Yahoo from 2004 to 2011.
Hector Aguilar
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer · Okta
Former Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Okta (2014–2017) and VP of Engineering at Okta from 2012 to 2014. Aguilar's profile lists President, Technology at Okta since March 2019 and Technology Advisor at Okta since 2021, and he was CTO & VP of Software Development at ArcSight from 2011 to 2012.
Monica Bajaj
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Okta
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Okta since April 2026; her profile says she leads the Auth0 Business Unit engineering organization across AI, data, security, platform, authentication, authorization and developer experience. She was VP of Engineering, Customer Identity at Okta from 2021 to 2026, and has been a Board Member at SheTO since 2023.
Riccardo Cocetta
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Okta
Vice President of Engineering at Okta since February 2026, based in Antibes; his profile describes the role as VP of Engineering, Engineering Excellence (Architecture, Data, Quality). At Okta Cocetta was also Senior Director of Engineering (2023–2026) and Director of Engineering - Customer Identity Cloud (2022–2023).
Simran Brar
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Okta
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Okta since April 2024; her profile headline reads SVP, Engineering, Head of Infrastructure at Okta. At Okta Brar was also VP, Engineering (2021–2024), Senior Director, Engineering (2019–2021) and Director, Engineering (2017–2019).
Stacy Hong
LinkedInExperience: SVP of Engineering · Okta
SVP of Engineering at Okta since January 2017, a role listed in the Engineering and Technical department. Hong was SVP of Engineering at Picarro from 2014 to 2016, and at Hewlett Packard Enterprise held the roles VP of Engineering (2012–2014) and Senior Director of Engineering (2009–2012).
Stefan Krantz
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Engineering · Okta
Senior Vice President of Engineering at Okta since January 2026, a role his profile describes as Head of Product Engineering. At SentinelOne Krantz was Senior Vice President, Head of Engineering (2024–2025), Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering and Operations (2023–2024) and Vice President of Cloud Engineering (2022–2023), and he was Vice President Of Product Engineering at Medallia from 2020 to 2022.
Vivek Raman
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Engineering · Okta
Vice President, Engineering at Okta since September 2021; his profile headline reads VP & GM, Okta Digital Credentials. Raman was Vice President, Engineering at Yelp from 2020 to 2021, Director, Engineering at Yelp from 2017 to 2020 and Engineering Manager, Security at Yelp from 2015 to 2017.
Choose the right perspective
Match the leader's area to your question, for example an infrastructure or platform leader for reliability and scale, or a workforce identity or governance leader for product engineering questions. Consider when each person held the role, since practices from an earlier stage of the company may differ from how it works today.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should an engineering organization split ownership between a shared identity platform and the product teams built on it?
- 02What engineering practices keep an authentication service highly available when millions of users depend on it?
- 03How do engineering leaders integrate an acquired product and team into a larger platform?
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