Maia Iyer
Advisory Software Engineer at IBM
Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaia Iyer is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Research with eight years of experience focused on cloud security, zero trust, and multicloud identity. She champions identity-first, secure-by-default designs and is a core maintainer of the open-source Tornjak project promoting SPIRE and SPIFFE adoption across cloud-native ecosystems. Her work spans backend systems in Go, relational DB design, and full-stack exposure including React, with a history of prototyping secure container pipelines and interoperability tooling like Kagenti. Maia mentors new hires and interns in open-source contribution and regularly shares insights through talks and blogs, exploring how zero trust principles extend to emerging agentic systems. Based in Morris Plains, NJ, she combines rigorous research training from Carnegie Mellon with practical open-source impact, blending academic rigor and production-focused engineering. An under-the-radar strength is her ability to translate low-level security research (e.g., SGX performance and side-channel analyses) into usable tooling and developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
Academy for Math, Science, and EngineeringMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (25)
spire10
weighted10
installer10
specification10
reasoning10
logic10
saml9
keycloak9
kubernetes9
public-cloud9
neural-symbolic9
neuro-symbolic-ai9
access-management8
agentic-ai8
audio8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spiffe/tornjak
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Tornjak is a UI and management layer used for brokering human access to one or more SPIRE deployments
Contributions:8 releases, 276 reviews, 32 commits in 1 year 5 months
kubernetesdeploymentsspire
maia-iyer/spire-demos
Mar 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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