Zameer Syed
Technical ArchitectVerify ↗
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Zameer Syed
Founder & CTO of Axiom Identity
Okta Certified Technical ArchitectVerify ↗
I've run Okta in production for 15 years, and taken more than 20 companies onto Auth0 with my team. Tell me what you're stuck on and I'll write you a report.
Stuck on Okta or Auth0?
These are the five things people bring me most: enterprise SSO on Auth0, the Rules and Hooks deadline, moving off ForgeRock or Ping, workforce Okta that has grown messy, and authentication for AI agents.
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Enterprise SSO on Auth0
Your business customers want to sign in with their own Okta or Entra ID. I set up Auth0 Organizations so each one gets its own connection, branding and members.
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Rules and Hooks, by Nov 18
Rules and Hooks reach end of life on November 18. I rewrite them as Actions and test them against real logins before the switch.
Ask me about this (Rules and Hooks)function addRoles(user, context, callback) { const ns = "https://example.com/"; context.idToken[ns + "roles"] = user.app_metadata.roles; callback(null, user, context);}exports.onExecutePostLogin = async (event, api) => { const ns = "https://example.com/"; api.idToken.setCustomClaim(ns + "roles", event.user.app_metadata.roles);}; -
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Leaving ForgeRock or Ping
My team moved seven million users off ForgeRock in one program. I plan each move so your customers never notice it happened.
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Untangling workforce Okta
Years of apps, groups and one-off rules pile up. I clean up the tenant so access is easy to explain and easy to audit.
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05
Secure auth
for AI agentsAI agents need to act for your users without holding their passwords. I set up Auth0 so each agent gets scoped access, and a person approves anything risky.
Ask me about this (Secure auth for AI agents)
If you are, let's talk.
I've run Okta and Auth0 at scale.
See more of my work →1515
years of Okta, in production
20+20+
companies on Auth0, with my team
13M+13M+
customer identities across them
7M7M
users moved off ForgeRock in one program
Customer identity, by industry.
I keep client names private.
Here's the kind of identity work I've done, and where.
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Public sector
Sign-in for citizens, at the scale of a whole state.
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Healthcare and life sciences
One identity for each patient, across every app they use.
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Financial services
Login that meets the regulator's rules and the deadline.
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Consumer and retail
A sign-up and login that don't lose the sale.
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Industrial and logistics
Access for partners, plants and the machines between them.
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Software and connectivity
Identity built into the product your customers use.
I write about Okta and Auth0.
More of my writing →- · 4 min read Passkeys ship as a feature and die as a setting (opens in a new tab)
- · 4 min read The login challenge your customers never see (opens in a new tab)
- · 4 min read Migrate the customers, not the accounts (opens in a new tab)
- · 4 min read The login form you build is the login form you rebuild (opens in a new tab)
“A login is a promise
your company makes
thousands of times
a day. My job is to
build the system
that keeps it.”
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