Frederick Joseph Patton

Fred Patton is a Senior Developer Advocate on the Auth0 for Startups team at Okta, working at the intersection of identity and AI systems design. He has special interest in building ambient agents: continuous, event-driven AI processes that observe, remember, and act within governed boundaries. With experience in real-time streaming architectures at Nstream (formerly swim[dot]ai) across data, security, and healthcare contexts, Fred is able to leverage distributed systems experience in designing AI systems. A polyglot developer with love for Rust, Scala, Node.js, and Python, he gravitates toward FastAPI, Next.js, functional domain-driven design, and event sourcing. Fred also writes and speaks on governable AI systems.