Developer. Advocate. Builder.

Hi! I'm Nick Taylor (@nickytonline), a software engineer and developer advocate with 20+ years in the industry and a decade of open source. I write, stream, speak, and build things, currently in developer relations at Pomerium, where the focus is on Zero Trust security, MCP (Model Context Protocol), and agentic AI.

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Talks

Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw

AI Engineer Europe • 9th April 2026

Kubernetes Without Borders: Building Zero Trust Security for Dynamic Workloads

All Things Open 2025 • 14th October 2025

Hands-On Tutorials

Securing MCP Servers and MCP Apps with Pomerium

A hands-on course on securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and MCP apps with Pomerium, covering OAuth 2.1, upstream OAuth to APIs like GitHub, and per-user, per-tool authorization from dev to production.

iximiuz Labs • 14th July 2026

Native SSH Access with Pomerium

Pomerium can be used as a native SSH reverse proxy, adding OAuth authentication and flexible Pomerium policy enforcement to standard SSH connections, without the need for tunnels, or custom clients or servers.

iximiuz Labs • 21st April 2026