ABBEY - Key Persons


Arvil Nagpal - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder
As Product Lead at Okta, Arvil was responsible for its automation suite, a $250MM ARR business. He led the launch of Okta's no-code platform, Okta Workflows, gaining 500+ enterprise customers in its first year. After working in identity for several years, Arvil saw the challenges Okta's customers were facing with data access. Covid hit, the stock market imploded, and naturally Arvil decided it was time to scratch his entrepreneurial itch.

Chris Dinh

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer
Chris previously worked at Nuro building out their Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator, and at Arista Networks on their Platforms team. His interests range from the top of the stack all the way through the floor into embedded. With his wide range of experience, Chris is looking forward to building the future of security.

Jeff Chao - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • CTO
Jeff led Change Data Capture at Stripe, enabling the data platform and user-facing products to work with over $640 Billion in payments annually. Previously at Netflix, Jeff and his team ensured video playback worked reliably at Petabyte scale. Throughout his career building data systems, Jeff has faced many access issues. After releasing a popular open-source project, Jeff decided it was time to launch a startup to address the issues with access (with his wife and dog's blessing).

Yage Hu

Yage worked at Meta developing AR/VR products. He has a broad range of technical interests from low-level systems programming to formal verification. He enjoys hacking in Rust and functional languages the most. Yage considered starting his own identity company, but as a developer with an appreciation for infrastructure and operations challenges, Yage realized that Abbey Labs was the solution he wanted to devote his time to.