# Jake Moshenko

> Jake Moshenko is the New York-based CEO and co-founder of AuthZed, the company behind the open-source permissions database SpiceDB. Previously a co-founder of Quay, acquired by CoreOS in 2014, he worked at Boeing, Amazon, Google, CoreOS and Red Hat. His work connects developer infrastructure, relationship-based authorization and access control for AI agents.

- **Role:** CEO and co-founder at AuthZed
- **Organizations:** AuthZed, Quay, DevTable, CoreOS, Red Hat, Google, Amazon, Boeing
- **Education:** Computer engineering (field of study), University of Michigan
- **Known for:** Co-founded Quay, an early private Docker registry acquired by CoreOS in 2014., Co-founded AuthZed, the company behind open-source SpiceDB., Led AuthZed through its $12 million Series A announcement in June 2024.

## Career timeline

- **2005-2009** — Real-Time Software Engineer at Boeing.
- **2009-2010** — Software Development Engineer at Amazon.
- **2010-2012** — Software Engineer at Google; met future co-founder Joey Schorr.
- **2012** — Co-founded DevTable with Schorr; the online IDE effort led to Quay.
- **2014** — CoreOS acquired Quay; Moshenko became New York site lead.
- **2018-2020** — Senior Manager, Service Delivery, at Red Hat following its acquisition of CoreOS.
- **2020** — Co-founded AuthZed with Joey Schorr and Jimmy Zelinskie.
- **2021** — AuthZed joined Y Combinator W21, raised $3.9 million in seed funding, and open-sourced SpiceDB.
- **2024** — Announced a $12 million Series A led by General Catalyst.
- **2025** — Published a first-person account of returning to development with AI coding tools.
- **2026** — Hosts Base Layer, interviewing builders about AI infrastructure and authorization.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Quay, an early private Docker registry acquired by CoreOS in 2014.
- Co-founded AuthZed, the company behind open-source SpiceDB.
- Led AuthZed through its $12 million Series A announcement in June 2024.
- Annotated the Google Zanzibar paper to explain its design for readers outside Google.
- Hosts the Base Layer infrastructure podcast.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Hosted Ari Shamash on Base Layer, discussing Google Zanzibar, infrastructure adoption and authorization for AI agents; episode published October 1.
- **2026-09** — AuthZed announced Materialize general availability for AuthZed Dedicated on September 10.
- **2026-05** — AuthZed announced Moshenko’s May 21 EIC 2026 talk in Berlin on treating authorization as shared infrastructure.
- **2026-02** — Published Policy Engines for AI Agents on February 17.

## Links

- Website: https://authzed.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-moshenko
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jacobmoshenko
- GitHub: https://github.com/jakedt
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jakemoshenko.bsky.social

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Last updated: 2026-10-26