About

(Last Updated: Apr 2026)

I am Ajay Thomas, a software engineering manager in the B2B enterprise space.

I currently work at GitLab leading the authorization team. Prior to that, I worked at dbt Labs for 4 years as an engineering manager of the newly founded enterprise product security team. dbt is the standard for data transformation workflow that lets teams quickly and collaboratively deploy analytics code with best practices like modularity, CI/CD, documentation and governance. Before that, I spent 5 years as an enigneer at Okta, an enterprise identity management company, building multi factor authentication. Here, I have worked on server side policy engine, public APIs, identity protocols like SAML and OIDC and framework for native multi factor operations like SMS, email, webauthn etc.

Outside of tech, I also enjoy reading about personal finance, and the economy at large.

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My email is [firstName][at]thomasthoughts.com.