Matthew Romero is a Technical Product Marketing Manager at Veza, where he bridges engineering precision with marketing strategy in the identity security space. With a background in SecOps and hands-on experience within the Microsoft Defender team, he brings a practitioner’s mindset to every piece of content, writing for engineers first, while aligning to the needs of security leaders.

His work highlights how architecture-first approaches solve real-world problems in access governance, compliance, and risk reduction. Matthew’s voice is shaped by a Gen-X, engineer-to-engineer style: practical, candid, and informed by time in the trenches. He’s passionate about simplifying the complex, helping security teams operationalize identity-first defense models, and bringing clarity to the question at the core of modern security: who can access what?

He is Asana-certified and credits a neurodivergent lens (ADHD and ASD) with balancing precision and adaptability. Outside of work, he enjoys the Pacific Northwest outdoors, family time, and running a Minecraft server.