Authentication is a key requirement for any B2B software application, especially if software

vendors are selling to enterprise clients who are likely to have strict authentication requirements

for the vendors they use. However, building authentication for a B2B application is typically

complex and resource intensive due to the data models required, the provisioning and managing

accounts, and additional security and

skill concerns. Juliana Lamb is the co-founder and CTO of Stitch, which is building an all-in-one

platform for identity and access management. She joins the podcast with Gregor Van to talk about the

platform. Gregor Vand is a security focused technologist and is the founder and CTO of MailPass. Previously, Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist and is the founder and CTO of MailPass.

Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies.

He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

Hi, Juliana. Welcome to Software Engineering Daily. Hi, thanks so much for having me on.

Yeah. So you are one of the co-founders of Stitch, and we're going to get into Stitch in a moment.

But I think it would kind of interesting just to hear, you know, what did you do before Stitch? And I think, you know, one aspect of this is that you and your

co-founder, Reed, were working together somewhere else. I think it was plaid or played. I never

know how to say that. I'm Scottish, so I would say played, but or would I? I don't know. So yeah,

tell us about your history. Yeah. So my background is in engineering. I started my career

working at Strava. I was on their growth engineering team. I am a huge runner, do triathlons. And so

Strava was kind of a dream job coming out of school and getting to work on something that still

use every day. And then I ended up joining Plaid in 2017.

Reed, my co-founder, joined shortly after I did.

I was on their back-end engineering team and spent the bulk of my time working on problems

related to fraud and authentication.

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