Nick Taylor
Nick is a Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star, Software Developer, and Developer Advocate. With over two decades in technology and a decade of open source contributions, plus five years of professional open source work at companies like OpenSauced, dev.to, and Netlify, he brings deep community knowledge to his work. You'll often find him live streaming tech content, either solo or with friends from the community.
Montreal 2027 sessions
Build Your First MCP App
English session - Beginner
Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers expose tools, but did you know they can return UI, not just text? Using the MCP Apps extension, an MCP app delivers interactive experiences inside hosts like Claude.ai and ChatGPT.
We'll live code one from scratch, tunnel it to a public URL, register it in both hosts, then lock down tool calling with Pomerium (open core, Apache 2.0) so you control who gets to use your app and its tools.
Claws Out: Identity-Aware Access for an Autonomous Agent
English session - Intermediate
Running an autonomous agent like OpenClaw without hardening access to it is a bad idea. This talk covers securing OpenClaw ingress: OIDC login, short-lived SSH certificates, per-connection policy, and live session revocation, using Pomerium, an open core (Apache 2.0) identity-aware proxy built on Envoy, a CNCF project. Includes a PR I contributed upstream (trusted-proxy auth mode) and a live demo killing an active session mid-task.
