Colt Blackmore
Co-Founder And CTO at Reach Security
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolColt Blackmore is a seasoned cybersecurity technology leader and co-founder/CTO with 12 years of experience building ML-driven threat detection and product platforms from startup to enterprise scale. He led seminal ML and behavioral detection efforts at Cylance and Palo Alto Networks, growing WildFire into a dominant ATP product and creating the machine learning core that revitalized endpoint strategy. As Director of Product & Data Science at Proofpoint and now leading Reach Security, he blends product management, data science, and adversarial-ML hardening expertise to ship pragmatic, production-ready defenses. Known for turning stalled research into execution-focused teams, he has a track record of shipping innovations that materially move market share and revenue. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs Bay Area startup grit with institutional product discipline and a penchant for tackling problems other teams call unsolvable. Colleagues describe him as the kind of technical leader who bridges academic rigor and relentless delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at University of California, BerkeleyM.A., M.A. at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (3)
regular-expression8
re28
dotnet6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
0xcb/Re2.Net
Jan 2014 - Jan 2018
A .NET wrapper for Google's RE2 regular expression library
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 1 push in 4 years
dotnetregular-expressionregularre2
0xcb/Golomb-coded-map
May 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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