Yolanda Robla Mota

Staff Software Engineer

<div> <div class="standard-markdown grid-cols-1 grid [&_>_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 !gap-3.5"> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Yolanda Robla is a Staff Software Engineer at Stacklok, based in Barcelona, where she brings a wealth of cloud-native and open-source infrastructure experience to the team. Her career spans some of the most respected names in enterprise and developer tooling, including Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Miro, and IaSQL. A seasoned contributor to open-source communities, Yolanda has spoken at FOSDEM and built deep expertise in infrastructure, platform engineering, and distributed systems over the course of her career. At Stacklok, Yolanda applies that experience to building the secure, scalable foundations that enterprises need to deploy AI agents and MCP infrastructure with confidence.</p> </div> </div>

All Articles by Yolanda Robla Mota

November 19, 2025

Deploy an Okta-authenticated BigQuery MCP server on Kubernetes

Learn how to deploy an Okta-authenticated BigQuery MCP server using the ToolHive Operator. Includes workload identity federation, ngrok exposure, and VS Code integration.

November 06, 2025

Okta authentication for BigQuery MCP servers

Federate Okta identity to Google Cloud for BigQuery access, then deploy an MCP server with the ToolHive proxy handling authentication and token exchange.

November 04, 2025

Token exchange with ToolHive & Okta for MCP authentication to GraphQL

Implement token exchange between Okta authorization servers for MCP-to-GraphQL authentication. Practical tutorial with Apollo GraphQL backend and VS Code integration.

October 30, 2025

Beyond API keys: Token exchange, identity federation, and MCP

Move beyond static API keys to short-lived tokens with RFC 8693 token exchange. ToolHive enables secure deployment across trust boundaries with federation support.

September 17, 2025

Exposing a Kubernetes-hosted MCP server with ToolHive + ngrok

Deploy MCP servers with the ToolHive Kubernetes Operator and expose them via ngrok with HTTP Basic Auth and ngrok traffic policies for secure access.

September 09, 2025

Safely expose MCP servers externally with ngrok + ToolHive

Safely expose MCP servers using ToolHive’s proxy tunnel with ngrok integration. Get instant HTTPS URLs for external testing, demos, and remote collaboration.