Summary
Steve Jarvis is a Security Architect with 14 years of experience building backend services, APIs, and networked systems, now focused on infrastructure security at Okta. He progressed through senior engineering and staff/principal roles, bringing practical, hands-on expertise from companies like Viasat and Intel into identity and access management at Auth0/Okta. Steve combines deep systems thinking with a coder’s mindset, routinely translating security requirements into scalable, auditable infrastructure and API designs. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University and a BS from Northern Michigan University, which underpin his strong foundation in validation and automation. Notably, his career reflects sustained impact across both product engineering and security domains—bridging operational rigor with feature delivery. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he prefers solving hard infrastructure problems where networking, backend performance, and security intersect.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northern Michigan University
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Boston University