About Athanasius Wahbah

I'm Athanasius Wahbah, a technology and operations leader based in Santa Monica, California. As Program Architect at Tillster — a digital ordering platform serving 100+ restaurant brands across 40,000+ locations — I set technical direction organization-wide, reporting to the CFO and advising the executive team and board on technology strategy, cost, and risk.

I build and operate the systems the organization runs on — identity, cloud infrastructure, security, and the internal platforms teams depend on every day.

My career started hands-on, diagnosing and repairing hardware and software at high volume, and it taught me a discipline I've never let go of: understand the system completely before you touch it, and own the outcome once you do. Over the years that grew into running IT operations, then into engineering the platforms behind them.

Today my work centers on a few connected areas. On the identity side, I design and automate the full user lifecycle — joiner, mover, and leaver — across Microsoft Entra ID, SSO and SAML federation, and SCIM, so access is correct by default rather than by ticket. On the infrastructure side, I work across AWS and Google Cloud with Terraform and containerized workloads, including regulated, PCI-scoped environments. And throughout, I build internal tools and automation that replace commercial software we'd otherwise license, with measurable cost impact.

I also lead security operations and investigations when they're needed — incident response, forensics, and the controls that prevent incidents before they start.

If the right tool doesn't exist, I'd rather build it than buy it — and I do my best work upstream: designing the system right, shipping something durable, and owning the outcome.