Todd McKinnon

Todd McKinnon held an incredibly rigorous, highly analytical background in advanced software engineering, complex database architecture, and massive-scale cloud deployment. Operating as a fiercely capable engineering executive who successfully scaled Salesforce's backend infrastructure during its most aggressive growth phase, this intensely technical foundation provided the exact engineering mastery required to successfully pioneer the incredibly massive Okta platform.

Todd McKinnon is a brilliantly visionary software engineer and the profoundly influential CEO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for architecting the massive Okta cloud identity empire. Operating as the incredibly skilled Head of Engineering at Salesforce, McKinnon aggressively recognized the massive, impending chaos that would occur as corporate IT departments rapidly shifted to highly fragmented cloud applications. In 2009, he relentlessly partnered with Frederic Kerrest to completely pioneer the identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) market. By fiercely engineering a highly secure, massively scalable platform that allowed enterprises to seamlessly manage user authentication across thousands of different software platforms, he completely revolutionized global cybersecurity. His absolutely rigorous technical and strategic leadership permanently established Okta as an absolute multi-billion dollar monopoly in digital identity management.