Ajay Thomas
Engineering Manager at GitLab
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Thomas is an engineering manager with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building identity, authentication, and authorization systems for large-scale SaaS products. He’s founded and scaled enterprise identity teams at dbt Labs, migrating ~250K users to Auth0 and helping dbt Cloud grow through $10M to $125M ARR, and now leads an 11-engineer team at GitLab focused on end-user authorization. Prior to dbt he helped architect Okta’s Identity Engine and adaptive MFA frameworks, blending deep security expertise with API and platform design. Ajay combines product-minded leadership with low-level technical ownership—his background spans cloud key management, zero-trust policies, and multi-protocol identity integrations—making him adept at turning complex security requirements into reliable, production-ready platforms. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs technical curiosity (co-founding a student marketplace in college) with a business perspective from an MBA at UIUC.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Administration and Management General, Master's degree Business Administration and Management General at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (11)
okta10
authentication8
css7
csv4
csv-parsing4
stream4
transform4
api3
javascript3
nodejs3
parsing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AjayThomas-okta/utils
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 25 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
AjayThomas-okta/hello-world
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
python
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