Mark Voelker

Mark Voelker is the Vice President, Architecture & Chief Architect of the Okta Customer Identity Cloud (formerly Auth0), where his teams work across the organization to deliver billions of secure logins per month. Prior to joining Auth0 in 2021, Mark served as the architect for the VMware Integrated OpenStack product line at VMware, and in various software engineering and leadership roles at Cisco Systems. A breadth-first technologist at heart, Mark’s professional interests often find him at the intersection of distributed systems that power the modern world and the developers who build it. When not working from his home near Raleigh, North Carolina, Mark can often be found enjoying a hike with his family or making sawdust in the garage. He can be bribed with a sufficient quantity of donuts.