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ABOUT

I’m Mike Danese, a Seattle-based software engineer. I work on infrastructure security, identity, and access.

This blog is about tech, security, cryptography, and whatever else I find interesting in the moment.

Currently

I’m building foundational identity and access management platforms for Trust and Safety at Databricks.

Previously

I spent eight years at Google, joining the early Kubernetes team in 2015. During my tenure, I led identity, policy enforcement, and compliance for Google Kubernetes Engine.

I also chaired and served as Tech Lead for Kubernetes SIG Auth, where we owned core infrastructure—including authenticators, authorizers, certificates, node isolation, and service accounts. I am still a top-ten contributor to the Kubernetes core codebase by commits.

Before that, I studied mathematics at UC San Diego.

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