Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

Alex Salazar

Alex is a seasoned Founder/CEO and auth industry veteran. As VP of Product Management at Okta, Alex led their developer products, which represented 25% of total bookings, and managed their network of over 5,000 auth integrations. Later, as GM, he launched an auth-centric proxy server product that reached $9M in revenue within its first year.

Previously, as co-founder and CEO of Stormpath (acquired by Okta), he built the first Authentication API for developers, creating a new product category. The platform attracted 2,000 new developer signups monthly with a 50% activation rate and 30% 30-day retention.

Alex has a Georgia Tech CS degree and a Stanford MBA, with experience as a software engineer, enterprise sales rep, and product leader. He has a proven track record of turning innovative ideas into successful products.

Nate Barbettini

Nate has built AI products, is a recognized expert in authentication, led engineering teams, and wrote the book on software development (literally). As CTO of Cobbler, he built an AI agent stack from scratch, facing the very challenges Arcade now solves. His OAuth 2.0 training is the most watched in the world. At Okta and Stormpath, Nate built authentication APIs that developers enjoyed. With his AI experience, deep security know-how, and instinct for dev-friendly design, Nate knows exactly what developers need and what they'll like using.

Tony Karrer

Dr. Tony Karrer has been defining technical strategy and leading the development of web/software solutions for more than 20 years. He has been a part-time CTO at numerous startups and is known for being the original CTO of eHarmony. Tony was an associate professor of Computer Science and has consulted to many companies seeking to use technology in innovative ways including Credit Suisse, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Symbol. He was valedictorian and attended USC as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, receiving an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science. He is well known for his eLearning Technology blog and organizes the Los Angeles CTO Forum.