Brian Pontarelli is the founder and CEO of Inversoft, a Denver-based company that allows developers to offload their authentication, authorization and user management needs. Before Brian bootstrapped Inversoft, he studied computer engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. After graduating, he worked at a variety of companies including Orbitz, US Freightways, XOR and Texturemedia. Current interests include identity management. cloud, microservices, security, reliability, and performance.