Ronen Hilewicz is a principal software engineer at Aserto, where he combines his passions for software security and clean architecture to help engineers navigate the challenges of modern identity and access management.

Most of his 25-year software career has revolved around large-scale and highly available distributed systems in one way or another. At Microsoft he was the engineering lead of the team that built the Azure Service Bus, and has since gone back to his scrappy roots and worked in various startups on distributed computation frameworks, big-data and machine-learning services, and most recently, distributed authorization.

Based in Bloomington, IN since 2021, Ronen likes to spend his free time playing bass and jamming with local musicians.