Tim Hinrichs is a co-founder and CTO of Styra, the cloud-native authorization company, and he is a co-creator of the open source CNCF Open Policy Agent project. Before that, he worked at VMware and co-founded the OpenStack Congress project. Tim has 20+ years of experience developing policy-based systems for different domains such as cloud-computing, software-defined networking, configuration management, web security, and access-control. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.