Developer advocate at the intersection of AI, security, and software.

Hi! I'm Nick Taylor (@nickytonline), a software engineer and developer advocate focused on MCP, agentic AI, Zero Trust security, developer tooling, and open source. I'm currently in developer relations at Pomerium.

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20+ years in software · GitHub Star · AAIF Ambassador · AWS Community Builder · Microsoft MVP

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A few selected talks, tutorials, and practical notes on AI, Zero Trust security, and developer infrastructure.

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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

Harden Access to OpenClaw with Pomerium

Put OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI assistant with shell and file access, behind a web route and an SSH route, both gated by the same identity and Pomerium's context-aware policy.

iximiuz Labs • 21st July 2026

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