Alex Olivier

Alex Olivier is the Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, an open-source authorization platform, and co-chair of the OpenID AuthZEN working group, which standardizes fine-grained authorization. He specializes in authorization systems, with a recent focus on workload identity and AI security.

With over a decade of experience building and scaling authorization systems at Microsoft, Qubit, Zencargo, and multiple startups, Alex has published extensively on securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI agents. A frequent speaker at events on authorization, AI, security, and identity, including KubeCon, Google Cloud NEXT, Identiverse, and EIC, he combines standards development with practical implementation experience, focusing on the future of authorization for traditional applications, distributed workloads, and emerging AI systems.