Joining Marqeta as the Head of Identity Security, I found a very different environment than any I'd worked with previously. Marqeta is 100% cloud-based, with almost no on-premises footprint, and every workforce service is a SaaS. That presented new identity challenges that even many vendors in the identity market haven’t fully kept up with.
Marqeta is an engineering-led company and Identity governance has historically been built by engineers, not identity specialists. While their solutions worked well at our current size, they weren't as scalable, user-friendly, or audit-ready as we needed for the next phase of our growth. We were ready to treat Identity as a strategic security and governance function, as well as an engineering problem.
I joined Marqueta with a clear mission: centralize identity governance, ensure scalability, deliver an outstanding employee experience, and meet the audit and compliance needs of a growing company.