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I’m joining Pomerium!

New year, new role!

Today is a couple of firsts. It's my first day at Pomerium and I'm also their first Developer Advocate!

Working with the developer community is one of my favourite things to do, and I'll be able to continue to do that in my new role.

Why Pomerium?

I'll be honest, I hadn't heard of Pomerium before interviewing with them. As their first Developer Advocate, part of my role will be to change that and put Pomerium on the map in the developer community.

What drew me to Pomerium was their innovative approach to Zero Trust access control. Their access proxy implements true Zero Trust principles, where every request is authenticated (authn) and authorized (authz) based on identity and context (device identity, device posture etc.) - regardless of where users or applications are located.

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As a fan of open source, I love that they have an open core model which makes enterprise-grade Zero Trust access control available to everyone - from hobbyists all the way to enterprises.

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Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy.

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Pomerium builds secure, clientless connections to internal web apps and services without a corporate VPN.

Pomerium is:

It’s not a VPN alternative – it’s the trusted, foolproof way to protect your business. Want a hosted control plane and management GUI? Give Pomerium Zero a try today!

Docs

For comprehensive docs, and tutorials see our documentation.

Contributing

See Contributing for information on how you can contribute to Pomerium.




The Pomerium team has been super welcoming, and I'm joining at an exciting time. Last summer, they launched Pomerium Zero, their NextGen Access Platform for secure clientless connections, and raised a $13.75M Series A led by Benchmark.

If you want to hear a bit about the origins of Pomerium and all the cool stuff we’re building, check out this interview with our CEO, Bobby DeSimone.

Wrapping Up

One last thing. I want to give big props to my network for reaching out, making intros etc. while I was looking for my next role. It was much appreciated, so thanks to all of you. You know who you are. 😎

And also a big shoutout to Angie Jones, @techgirl1908, for taking time out of her super busy schedule to chat with me about Dev Rel and if it was a potentially good move for me. 💜

If you want to stay in touch, all my socials are on nickyt.online.

To learn more about Pomerium, you can find us at:

To quote the wise Wolverine, "Let’s F***ing Go!"

Wolverine pumped for Nick's new role

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Thomas Bnt

Congrats Nick! 🥳

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Thomas!

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Sanjeev Sharma

Congratulations, Nick!

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Sanjeev!

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flo merian

bravo, Nick! keep up your great work 👏👏

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Flo!

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Fyodor

Congratulations with the new start and good luck 🚀 security is the most important and the most exciting industry in software 🙌

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Fyodor!

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Chris Jarvis

Congratulations Nick!

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Chris!

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Lymah

Congrats, Nick.

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Lymah! Excited to get started!

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GP

Congrats on your new role. How is Pomerium different from Netskope?

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Nick Taylor

Still brand new to the role, so I’ll get back to you on that. 😅

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Nikola Perišić

Congratulations! Good luck with your new role 🙌

One Q, if it's not a secret: How do you plan to spread awareness about Pomerium’s Zero Trust access proxy?

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Nick Taylor • Edited

Thanks Nikola!

No secrets really. Mainly live streaming, blogging, videos etc. but who knows? Maybe we’ll cook up something secret.

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Pat Clarke

Nick, this sounds incredible. Excited to learn more about Pomerium from you.

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Pat!

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Kudzai Murimi

Congratulations! Good luck with your new role @nickytonline

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Nick Taylor

Thanks Kudzai!

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