Kiran Thakkar

Kiran Thakkar is a cloud security and identity architect with over 20 years in software, including 17 years specializing in information and application security. He conducts architecture reviews for workloads deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with deep expertise in IAM, OAuth/OIDC/SAML, and securing cloud-native workloads. His focus is translating complex security requirements into production-ready designs and partnering with engineering and sales teams on large-deal POCs that influence product roadmaps. He is also active in the AI and agentic space, authoring MCP servers and Claude Skills, and contributed the OCIProvider for OAuth-based MCP authentication in fastmcp. He also writes at spiritualsoulintech.com, a space where he explores what it means to stay grounded, mindful and soulful in a world increasingly shaped by technology.