Maia is a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research. During her three-year tenure, she has become a dedicated contributor and maintainer of the open-source project Tornjak under the SPIFFE/SPIRE Community, and is actively involved in developing Tornjak as an easy-to-use control plane for SPIRE. Her current research fields of interest are zero trust, security, and the multi-cloud problem, and she is passionate about open source and educating.