hello, I'm

Sohan Maheshwar

17+ years in tech, 11+ of them in Developer Relations. I help engineers make sense of the technical aspects of authorization, AI Security, cloud-native systems and more. I give talks, make videos, write things, and ship open source.

  • O'Reilly author
  • Agentic AI Foundation Ambassador
  • Claude Community Ambassador
Sohan Maheshwar

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Talks

Spoken at 100+ conferences around the world including AWS Re:Invent, Web Summit, KubeDay, DevOpsDays, Voxxed Days, and many more.

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Writing

Posts for Docker, Pinecone, AuthZed and Dev.to. Plenty on RAG security, and at least one rant about JWTs.

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Code

Open Source libraries for LangChain, Testcontainers, and Steampipe. Not to mention many sample applications.

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Press

An O'Reilly course on cloud basics, and a stack of interviews where I mostly end up talking about the cloud. clippings → Q. What was India's first panel quiz show? A. India Wants To Know. I co-created it. There's also a weekly trivia newsletter, 300+ issues deep. odds & ends → latest · nov 2026

Building Fine-Grained Permissions for AI Agents

Open Source Summit talk

 latest · oct 2026

Authentication is their problem. Authorization is yours.

AuthZed blog