Victor Ronin

Software Architecture

About Author

Victor Ronin is a software architect at Aembit with more than two decades of experience in technology, software engineering, and engineering management. He has contributed to products at established security companies including Okta and Netskope. Victor is also a co-inventor on several patents and an active contributor to the broader technology community. He has answered hundreds of technical questions on Stack Overflow and writes about software engineering, technology leadership, management, and the changing software industry.

Expertise

  • Software architecture
  • Software engineering
  • Engineering management
  • Enterprise security
  • Identity and access management
  • Cloud software
  • Distributed systems
  • Security engineering
  • Technology leadership
  • Software development practices

Education

  • Master’s degree in computer science, Kharkiv State Technical University of Radio Electronics
  • Northern Virginia Community College

Selected Patents

  • Mid-link Server Having a Plurality of Access Resource Servers for Policy Control
  • Systems and Methods for Providing and Managing Distributed Enclaves
  • Zero Trust and Zero Knowledge Application Access System

Articles by Victor Ronin

Victor Ronin builds AI agents in a day using CrewAI and a local LLM, sharing what worked, what broke and why agents still need humans.
Every workload that calls an API has to prove it belongs. How that proof gets exchanged shapes the blast radius of any credential leak.
A practical walkthrough of the Auth0 settings and tweaks you’ll need to get an MCP server working smoothly with real-world clients like Claude.
A down-to-earth primer to help engineers make sense of agentic AI architecture and where things stand today.
From DNA to data, explore the unanswered questions of identity and the challenges of securing a non-human world.
Our lead architect provides real-world advice for executing your next project with a human-centric and agile touch that yields rapid, high-quality results.
As our engineers built a new product capability, they were forced to unravel the mysteries of network translation tools – leading to some practical discoveries along the way.
Read how our engineers debugged a perplexing connection issue in Aembit Edge, highlighting key asynchronous DNS challenges to Linux kernel race conditions.
This article briefly describes SPIFFE and SPIRE and explains how Aembit differs from them.
This article describes how to use Terraform to configure AWS to periodically start an EC2 instance.
TLS for Postgres is different than for web browsers and HTTP. This article describes issues we encountered developing Aembit’s support for Postgres TLS.
This article is a brief overview of some challenges with IaC. It’s not a complete guide to IaC, but it will give you an idea of what to watch out for.